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Re: Motif support


From: dick
Subject: Re: Motif support
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:27:16 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.14 (Gnus v5.14) Commercial/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

ÓF> AFAIK a lot of the complexity on the display engine comes from
ÓF> shoehorning a GUI on top of a TUI design.

Yes, although to someone's credit, GUI was retrofitted on TUI as well as
one could expect.

ÓF> That said, the combination of micro-changes

The micro-changes which minimize impact while maximizing obfuscation
perpetuate a vicious cycle of increasing incomprehensibility and
recalcitrance towards taking one step back for two steps forward.



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