[Desktop_architects] Portland: The Linux Desktop IntegrationInterface

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Mon Dec 5 10:48:25 PST 2005


On Monday 05 December 2005 12:09, Steve Northover wrote:
> What?
>
> While there are many possible widget toolkits that execute on a given
> platform, by definition, the native widgets for the platform come from the
> operating system vendor.  The operating system vendors define the look and

  If you want to use that argument, then these are wrong:

> Unix (AIX, HP, Solaris)
> - Motif
> - GTK (Solaris only)
>
> Linux
> - GTK+
> - Qt
> - Fox
> - Motif
> - ... others?

  They boil down to pure Xlib.

  Unless you want to talk "operating system vendors define the look", in which 
case the only native thing is a completely non-customized app, which uses 
exactly and only what the OS vendor uses, and that means every Linux 
distribution is a different OS entirely from an ISV perspective.

  This is more of a 'rathole' than anything that came up in Portland.  The 
fact of the matter is, using different widget libraries is common on all 
platforms, and is -not- the problem here.  It's being treated as a scapegoat 
for inability to properly define the real problem.

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George Staikos
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