Tk vs Motif

From: Pasha Murat (murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov)
Date: Sat Aug 30 1997 - 07:24:13 MEST


	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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