1. kylix was using winelib Yes, the first time I started Kylix, my reaction was Ughh. Software ported using winelib are ugly, they tend to flicker, and don't respect window managers. I couldn't get anything done, because some Kylix window always wanted to move on top when I moused over. So the Kylix IDE was pretty unusable. And don't tell I should use such or such WM! 2. Software was compiled using its own qt library. The widgets didn't look well and didn't match those of the rest of Qt apps. 3. Kylix used THREE different toolkits: a. Winelib for the IDE b. Qt for the compiled apps and some dialogs in the IDE c. Motif for the Help browser Kylix may be great tool (especially the compiler itself), but the whole package looks very amateurish.
I remember, in the 80s, computer magazines always tried to make clear that a 64K computer had 65536 bytes of RAM, not 64000. Indeed there was a distinction between the notations K and kB, the former meant multiples of 1024, the latter multiples of 1000. However with M and G this distinction no longer exists.
Some people say, that you shouldn't boycott MS software just because it is from MS. Well, I say, you should. Thus only can we get rid of them eventually.
For the many Lisp and Scheme implementations that exist for Linux, look at http://www.hotfeet.ch/~gemi/LDT. There are also many implementations for Haskell and ML.
As some other Linux "ports" in the recent past, Kylix uses WineLib extensively (in the IDE, at least). So there all those problems we have come to expect from Wine, for example:
1. The fonts are difficult to set up. I have not been able to set up the GUI font to match my desktop font.
2. Odd behaviour under various window managers, windows stacking order changes regardless of window manager settings.
3. The hideous look and feel of MS Windows.
I don't consider this an adequate effort to create a "native" application for Linux. JBuilder and Netbeans, both in Java, paradoxically look and feel more Linux like than Kylix.
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1. kylix was using winelib
Yes, the first time I started Kylix, my reaction was
Ughh. Software ported using winelib are ugly, they tend to flicker, and don't respect window managers. I couldn't get anything done, because some Kylix window always wanted to move on top when I moused over. So the Kylix IDE was pretty unusable. And don't tell I should use such or such WM!
2. Software was compiled using its own qt library. The widgets didn't look well and didn't match those of the rest of Qt apps.
3. Kylix used THREE different toolkits:
a. Winelib for the IDE
b. Qt for the compiled apps and some dialogs in the IDE
c. Motif for the Help browser
Kylix may be great tool (especially the compiler itself), but the whole package looks very amateurish.
BTW I use Eclipse.
I remember, in the 80s, computer magazines always tried to make clear that a 64K computer had 65536 bytes of RAM, not 64000. Indeed there was a distinction between the notations K and kB, the former meant multiples of 1024, the latter multiples of 1000. However with M and G this distinction no longer exists.
Some people say, that you shouldn't boycott MS
software just because it is from MS. Well, I say,
you should. Thus only can we get rid of them eventually.
Is there an easy way to upgrade from 6.2. The problem is, that I have installed latest XFree and GNOME and kernel from source.
For the many Lisp and Scheme implementations that exist for Linux, look at http://www.hotfeet.ch/~gemi/LDT. There are also many implementations for Haskell and ML.
As some other Linux "ports" in the recent past, Kylix uses WineLib extensively (in the IDE, at least). So there all those problems we have come to expect from Wine, for example: 1. The fonts are difficult to set up. I have not been able to set up the GUI font to match my desktop font. 2. Odd behaviour under various window managers, windows stacking order changes regardless of window manager settings. 3. The hideous look and feel of MS Windows. I don't consider this an adequate effort to create a "native" application for Linux. JBuilder and Netbeans, both in Java, paradoxically look and feel more Linux like than Kylix.