From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19951 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2004 06:13:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19944 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2004 06:13:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13126.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.174.163) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 31 Oct 2004 06:13:17 -0000 Message-ID: <20041031061316.25283.qmail@web13126.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.164.122.15] by web13126.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:13:16 PDT Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:34:00 -0000 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: SDL Interface Development To: Eric McDonald , Lincoln Peters Cc: Xconq list In-Reply-To: <418465A0.1010705@phy.cmich.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01369.txt.bz2 There are only two worries I'd have with this move, both of which are posed, I acknowledge, from a position of relative ignorance: 1. We'll lose all the work done in SDL, right? It seems that ParaGUI is less work than writing everything from scratch, so maybe this isn't too big a deal. 2. Forcing the average user to load a bunch of external programs. It took me awhile to get comfortable with open-source software, coming from a Win32 background. Loading TCL/TK, in the case of XConq, or GTK in the case of Gimp, while pretty standard fare for a Linux user, is very intimidating for someone used to loading a single piece of software to run on Windows. So if it can all be packaged as a single install and be relatively seemless, this isn't a big deal, but otherwise, it'll be an added hurdle for an audience that is notable hurdle-adverse. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail