[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.
--
George Staikos
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