From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-08-01T08:57:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Free(real Free) GUI toolkits

Hello David,

>> I haven't tried this (or even heard of it before),
>> but it does sound
>> interesting.
DR> It was a project started in 2000. It died in 2002, the
DR> author revived it. I hope people to contribute code. I
DR> will create X widgets myself for commercial purposes,
DR> and submit them. Just because it isnt LGPL or
DR> GPL(restrictive licenses).

I hate myself for asking this question:
But what is so wrong with the LGPL in an object oriented GUI toolkit
where you can create commercial X widgets without any problems for any
purpose. I'm speaking about GTK/FOX/FLTK/TK here.

DR> No, it does not have MDI.  I think I will promote the
DR> WideStudio and convince people that it can be a good
DR> widely used future toolkit. It still lacks many common
DR> widgets. That doesn't bother me since I know X
DR> programming well though :). I do see a bright future
DR> in this toolkit if it remains free. I would definitely
DR> like to see it used in commercial applications, Widget
DR> creation is not very difficult, it just takes a bit of
DR> X programming with the C language. 

I believe that the world really don't need another toolkit, with a lot
of common widgets still missing. Widget creation is also not very
difficult in any toolkit (TK may be an exception).


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