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In a surprise move at the Build 2018 conference, Microsoft have announced that three key components of the Windows user interface are now open-sourced. Kevin Gallo, MS VP for the Windows Developer Platform sums it up in a blog entry.
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018
The newly opened-up components are critical for writing desktop applications and have so far been Windows-only. Based on C# and the .NET framework, especially WPF is generally considered to be reasonably good. Interest from beyond the Windows ecosystem might appear: when will we see ports to the Linux and Mac platforms, and what would it mean to their platform-specific toolkits GTK and Cocoa?
WPF = Windows Presentation Foundation
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:29PM (9 children)
Motif is good enough for any GUI.
I'm a crotchety old bigot and I haven't upgraded my rig since XFree86.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:38PM (4 children)
Highly doubtful, that you're rig (assumed main work computer) is 26 years old. Sure, I've got a few clunkers running around somewhere, but it's definitely not what I would call my "rig." In fact I have a couple of functional, usable Thinkpad A21m Laptops that work with some modern Linux systems. They even provide a decent user experience, but I wouldn't be happy solely relying on them for everything.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:47PM (3 children)
The final release of XFree86 was in 2008. No I haven't replaced my main computer in ten years. We have this recession for the past decade and I can't afford a new computer. Money is tight for most and non-existent for computer nerds ever since the jock bros and the purple hairs took over the entire tech industry. Nerds die in the gutter.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:58PM
I could see that, all of the computers I've built over the same time period are perfectly functional. Well, one of them has an issue with booting from an SSD, but when it stalls on windows boot, I hit reset and it boots up again fine. Been doing that for the last year or two, so I figure if it ain't broke.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by aim on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:29AM (1 child)
Frankly, I wonder where you're sited - around here (center of western Europe), there's got to be something seriously wrong with you not to find work in IT. There's a dire need for IT professionals (any level) pretty much anywhere you care to look, and by far not enough people to cover it.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:20AM
Here in the UK, being over 50 counts as having "something seriously wrong with you"
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(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:43PM (3 children)
Just FYI. The vast majority of x.org (Linux, BSD, etc) desktop applications are written in either Gtk+ (with GNOME libs or without) or Qt (with KDE libs or without). Not Motif. Most firms that pay you to write Linux desktop applications will pay you to write Qt (and/with QML) code. Not Motif, not Gtk+ (not anymore, since Nokia once bought Trolltech it's all Qt in the consultancy industry - at least here in EU).
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:50PM (2 children)
Don't tell me shit I already know. What part of "Motif is good enough" don't you understand?
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:57AM (1 child)
Motif? You PINO!* Real programmers use Xlib!
* Programmer In Name Only.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:58PM
Can we compromise on Athena widgets?
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