Brian Vincent wrote:
On 4/16/06, *Rich Gilson* <signman359@gmail.com mailto: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.
- 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.
- Did you read the thread(s) about rewriting WineTools that occurred
over the past few months? Are you reinventing that wheel?
- 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.