Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:46:00 -0700 (PDT) | From | Krishna Akella <> | Subject | Re: Can't X be elemenated? |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David Lang wrote:
> different toolkits exist becouse people are solving different problems. > which set of people do you propose telling that their desires don't > matter? > > you can produce X programs just useing the Xlib libraries, which are > available on every system and don't require all the bloat of the higher > leve tools, but do you really want to? the higher level toolkits exist to > make life easier for the programmer, is the difficulty in selecting which > toolkit to use really so bad that you want to eliminate all of them > instead? "eliminate all of them". I never said that. Infact its all about choice and freedom that we are using Linux/GNU.
> this is like sayign that it's to hard to choose a fullscreed text editor, > you have vi, elvis, vim, emacs, openoffice, abiword, joe, ... choosign > between them it to complicated so lets eliminate all of them and everyone > will jsut use ed instead. again - eliminating all - is a premise you have made. What I was talking about was the lack of standards. Interoperability is a _desirable_ feature. > David Lang
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