Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> > As other people noticed, finding
> > good documentation is a little hard but more importantly getting help
> > is not easy at all. I asked for help in a few related newsgroups but
> > the answers I got were not terribly helpful.
>
> Since Xaw is so ugly, almost nobody learns Xaw and X Toolkit 
> Intrinsics. Everybody is attracted by the nice Look of Qt or gtk, but 
> both of them are not Xt based but have their own basic framework.

  Xaw3d goes a long way toward making Xaw look nice, in my opinion.  
Converting to it is as simple as linking against a different library.  
Have you seen it?

> Motif is, as well as Xaw, X11 Toolkit based, but as a comercial 
> product lots of people prefer something free.

  Lesstif.

>  Since Motif is almost as old as Xaw, lots of newer UI features are 
> missing there, too.

  Untrue.

       -Dave

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