Hi, this question is more conceptual than practical. There are certain advantages in using Tk as a window manager instead of Motif: - it is free (well, LessTif is also free); - it is simple; - there is a Windows port of Tk, so the application itself may not know about the difference between graphics interfaces between UNIX and Windows - this is what is called portability issue; - on UNIX it requires only libX11, but not libXt etc, so one doesn't link in alot of stuff he doesn't really need - there is an interface (Togl by Paul/Henderson) which allows to do GL rendering whithin Tk canvas Of course, in this case one should care about having Tk distributed along with his product - this doesn't sound very attractive... So the question is : if ROOT team ever considered using Tk as a window manager? Thanks, Pasha
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