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The GIMP was first released on Motif widgets, and it crashed often. The frustration with Motif's code quality led to the GIMP ToolKit (GTK). I doubt Motif wou
by chasil 4y ago
The GIMP was first released on Motif widgets, and it crashed often.
The frustration with Motif's code quality led to the GIMP ToolKit (GTK).
I doubt Motif would have survived, even if it was open. There were obvious problems.
"A GUI toolkit called GTK (at the time known as the GIMP ToolKit) was developed to facilitate the development of GIMP. The development of the GIMP ToolKit has been attributed to Peter Mattis becoming disenchanted with the Motif toolkit GIMP originally used. Motif was used up until GIMP 0.60."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP
- hulitu 4y ago> The GIMP was first released on Motif widgets, and it crashed often. Do you mean Lesstif ? Motif was not available for free. The fact that it crashed can be attributed to code quality. There were a lot of professional programs that used Motif.
- chasil 4y agoThe early versions of GIMP only ran on platforms with Motif. The 0.60 version broke all the plugins with the advent of gtk. Nobody liked it for quite a while. I used an earlier pre-0.60 release on AIX. https://www.gimp.org/about/ancient_history.html https://www.gimp.org/about/ancient_history.html
- hakfoo 4y agoI can recall getting statically linked binaries of an early Motif-based GIMP on the "bonus CD" that came with a '90s Linux book which included Slackware on CD. The early GTK-based versions did look more modern, in a 90s way, but the benefit was that you could actually build them reasonably. Lesstif was sort of late to the party, and then was soon superceded when real Motif got opened.
- anthk 4y agoProfessional software shipped static builds for the user.