Brian Vincent wrote:
On 4/16/06, Rich Gilson <signman359@gmail.com> wrote:
I must say, the turn this conversation has taken is interesting.����In response
to what was written above, it does seem to me a curious precedent Alexandre
has set.����After all, wasn't Wine developed to allow people to get AWAY from
Windows?����Yet, when we go to make a GUI toolkit to make it accessible to the
masses, what are we told?����Why, write it for Windows, of course.

1.�� You never mentioned what you want this "front-end" to do.�� I think that's pretty important to whatever you're talking about.�� Seems to me it might fit in with winecfg or something else that already exists.

2.�� Did you read the thread(s) about rewriting WineTools that occurred over the past few months?�� Are you reinventing that wheel?

3.�� Putting a GUI toolkit dependency on Wine will never make everyone happy.�� Even worse, you can't even make a majority of people happy.�� If you assume GNOME or KDE are available, you're assuming you're running on Linux.��

-Brian

Why not use Motif/Lesstif? Sure, it's ugly, but I like it, it's available with most major distributions, exists on non-Linux targets, and a precompiled binary of OpenMotif is provided with Sun Java 1.5/Linux

Then there's the question "OpenMotif or Lesstif, hmm...", which is answered by ./configure, and I say defult to Lesstif on Linux binaries, Motif on solaris.