[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 08:25:31PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2003 17:42, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > You are absolutely correct.  While GNUstep still needs more work, and
> > there are some features it would be nice to have (I don't recall them
> > doing much with antialiasing, or GNOME/KDE interoperability), at this
> > point it is absolutely unfair to compare GNOME or KDE to the massive
> > amounts of usefull functionality that GNUstep has for the programmer.
> 
> Er, are you guys sure you aren't on crack?? 

Yep.

KDE and Gnome are both steps backwards.

They have a lot of features, but its a bloated, incoherent mess.

> > On the other hand, GNUstep is way behind on application support, and
> > thus lacks needed end user functionality.
> 
> I blame the primitive widget set (scroll bars don't react to middle-click etc)

It's not primitive.  That's on purpose.

Personally, I like how Athena did things. It's a much easier way to use
a scrollbar.


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