Linux-vs-Windows (was Re: Augury and reading ...)

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On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:55:20PM -0400, Kenneth Brody, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> I've heard of people putting the Windows-look desktop on Linux, along with
> a copy of OpenOffice, and drop it on a "Windows-only" person's desktop, and
> they didn't have any problems running it.

FVWM95, most likely.  Bleah.  I've used it and didn't like it.  It was very
win95-ish, but I'd rather use something else in X11, myself.  If I'm doing
X11, I want closer to NeXTStep...usually AfterStep or WindoMaker.  They can
keep the bloated GNOME and KDE cruft, thanks.

But speaking of making one system look like another...

Actually, one of the things I like about Tk as a GUI toolkit is that it
gives you far more of a -non- Windows-native widget set (it's as close as
you'll get to Motif on Windows).  There are a few inherently Win32 widgets
it uses...notably check and radio boxes and scrollbars.  Other than that,
it's very Motif-like.

There's also wxwidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) that does basically native-UI on
*nix (Motif -or- gtk+), Win32, or Mac OS/X.  But I don't feel it's mature
enough to move to, the docs are next to nonexistant in book form, and there
are some other drawbacks.

Personally, besides codebase maturity, I -like- the idea of one application
being 99% the same across three platforms, rather than gaining the
platform's look and feel on each.  But that's a subjective preference.

mark->
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