I often wonder how things would have turned out if the Open Group had placed Motif and CDE under the MIT license back in the late 90s.

I've always been a fan of the X resource database, and I think it's a shame it never carried over to QT or GTK+. We'd have much better tools for working with it, and the theming possibilities have only ever been matched by Enlightenment. I remember Netscape let you set pixmap backgrounds for every UI element.

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jmclnx 3 days ago | parent [-]

>I think it's a shame it never carried over to QT or GTK+

Same here, but we know why. NIH Syndrome, or people did not realize how great it worked so they did their own thing, making things far more complicated then necessary.

I remember that time period, people were begging Motif/CDE to open up the source. Back then if that happened, many people would have jumped in and fixed a lot of issues. Now is a far different time :(

	▲	anthk 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		There was LessTif but it was incomplete, altough a good chunk of tools could run with it. DDD for instance.