[qvwm-e:00355] Re: qvwm development

FOX-TOOLKIT does'nt support Unicode, wxWindows 's maybe another choice?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lonnie Cumberland" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: [qvwm-e:00354] Re: qvwm development


> are you one of the developers of qvwm or a list member like me?
> 
> I tried, but I never could get qvwm2 to compile in my Mandrake system.
> 
> I am wondering how hard it would be to replace the existing widget set 
> in qvwm 1 with the Fox-Toolkit as the wm is already completed in qvwm1, 
> but  the widget set could be upgraded.
> 
> Do you know of any people who might be interested in working on this 
> project as it is very large and covers much more than just a wm.
> 
> It's a whole specialized Linux Distro.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lonnie
> 
>  machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
> have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
> you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is Chris 
> Sorenson wrote:
> 
> > Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> >
> >> Hello All,
> >>   machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
> >> have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
> >> you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is
> >> I am new to this mailing list and really like QVWM for a project that 
> >> I am gearing up to work on.
> >>
> >> It is actually a specialized distribution of Linux, called 
> >> IterCruise,  being built off of Mandrake and it will have QVWM as the 
> >> basic and initially the only window manager.
> >>
> >> My hope is that the qvwm 2.0 can be ready by the time that the 
> >> distribution is ready for the initial release.
> >>
> >> I have a modification suggestion but am not sure exactly how it can 
> >> be implemented in qvwm and first want to see if the mailing list is 
> >> active and has interested people.  This is QVWM's chance to  compete 
> >> directly in the realm of KDE and Gnome I think.
> >>
> >> Well, that is enough for now and I hope to hear from someone on the 
> >> list soon,
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Lonnie
> >>
> >>
> > qvwm-2 could be a great widget set, but I don't think it ever will be. 
> > It's been a long time since anyone's worked on it.
> >
> > The widget set you want is Fox:
> >
> > http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > You'll need it if you plan to compete against Gnome and KDE... ;)
> >
> >
> >
> 
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