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HP Propelling Linux Into Truly 'Big' Time
solo:
XINE uses Xt, which I do believe that installer also uses. Xt (the X11 toolkit) comes with just about every X11 distribution known to man. They used it for that reason.
And Loki's new installer which is used for all their newer stuff (of course their dead now) uses GTK but also provides a text install interface. Perhaps they too said that Xt is ugly and definitely crappy and started using GTK.
superk:
--- Quote from: xyle_one ---I dont care. This thread sucks.
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Wow! What an immature idiot you are. If you don't like the thread stop fucking replying to it!!!!!
xyle_one:
Oh okay sure thing boss.
Er, I mean, allow me to add extra punctuation so you know I am serious.
OH OKAY SURE THING BOSS!!?!?!!!?!111!!
worker201:
--- Quote from: solo ---XINE uses Xt, which I do believe that installer also uses. Xt (the X11 toolkit) comes with just about every X11 distribution known to man. They used it for that reason.
And Loki's new installer which is used for all their newer stuff (of course their dead now) uses GTK but also provides a text install interface. Perhaps they too said that Xt is ugly and definitely crappy and started using GTK.
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How much of a pain in the ass would it be to have the program itself decide which widget set would be most appropriate? Like, for example, when installing a program, it would look around and see if you had Lesstif. If you do, it uses it - if not, it looks for the next item on its preferred widget list, like gtk or qt or something. And users themselves would be able to select their favorite toolkits, allowing them to define a look for their system.
I guess it would be kinda hard. I think a really generic program ought to try it. Search for a toolkit, and then generate the gui dynamically. That would be cool. Some oldskool fool could even set everything to run curses style, like Slackware tools.
solo:
It would be a terrible pain in the ass.
Unless you created a proxy toolkit which maps to a bunch of other toolkits
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