openMotif vs. lesstif

Victor Pelt peltco at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Feb 18 01:07:26 GMT 2003


if openMotif is prefered, why is alliance dependent on lesstif
if lesstif really is needed, does lunar place lesstif in a place
that is compattible with openmotif?


On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 21:57, Steven Michalske wrote:
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> if i rember properly lestiff was only for flash compatibility in konquror
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> and that is no longer the story as konquror works fine with openmotif
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> unless there was something else i think we can switch the depends of lesstif 
> to openmotif
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> perhaps you ben may want to try that
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> hardkrash
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> On Monday 17 February 2003 10:33 pm, Terry Chan wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > Unfortunately openMotif and lesstif are in direct conflict with each other
> > for include headers and library names.  The Lunar KDE devs/users say that
> > KDE still needs/uses lesstif, while we've been trying to get the rest of
> > moonbase over to openMotif.  openMotif is by definition "more" compatible
> > than lesstif to the Motif standard.
> >
> > If RH8 has figured out some way to "store" lesstif in an out-of-the-way
> > place, then the Lunar KDE devs should take a look at attempting to do that
> > as well.
> >
> > I try very hard to stay away from all things KDE, qt, and lesstif.  :-)
> >
> > Terry Chan
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