Re: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?

[Manuel Chakravarty <chak@example.com>]

Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> wrote,

> I have to wonder, though. JWZ says that commercial UNIX vendors will
> never leave Motif unless they find something obviously, hugely, better
> (whereas GTK is just a little better) and that we ought not to turn
> our backs on our "natural allies" (not sure if that's a quote or a
> paraphrase) at Sun, SGI, etc. ... all of which makes a good deal of
> sense.
> 
> But with all due respect to one of the movers and shakers, I think
> he's wrong. Maybe it depends whether the <CLICHE>paradigm
> shift</CLICHE> is a top-down (i.e., driven by IT managers and so on)
> or a bottom-up affair. People who run networks may choose Linux for
> performance and stability, but for most individual users, even if they 
> appreciate those benefits, they're not going to migrate en masse to
> Linux unless it has a great GUI. And regardless of how developers view 
> the relative bugginess/stupidity of the various toolkits, from an end
> user's standpoint (at least from mine) Motif doesn't cut it, not by a
> long shot.

I am far from being a Motif fan, so I understand your last
remark, but I am unsure about GTK.  What's the problem with
it?  And if it is not much better than Motif now, doesn't it
have the possibility to develop -- in contrast to Motif? 

Manuel
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