I have written a number of Motif apps over the years, and think that Motif has provided what was required at the time. More complex projects meant using GUI builders like TeleUSE or X-Builder, which are okay but still unfortunately don't compare to those available on Windows. However Motif is at it's end. It's bulky, inefficient and too slow.
Commercial UNIX vendors are going to stick by Motif for some time because there are no alternatives. I would like to see Sun adopt GTK, since this would give GTK are better profile I don't think this will happen for sometime. Or better still GNOME as a replacement for CDE (Okay, thats even more far fetched.)
Both GTK and QT provide very good functionality but the Linux/UNIX platform lacks decent RAD GUI tools, however I think these concerns are being addressed by companies like Inprise etc.
What I don't want to see from these companies is a silly port of MFC GUI components, or an introduction of a new widget set. I think both GTK and QT can continue together for some time.
Another reason for why Motif has not evolved like it should of was because there was no decent competition.
GTK is way cooler than QT in my mind, but you must not forget the reason why GTK came about in the first place. The early version's of GIMP did use Motif, but the GIMP developers were forced away from Motif. Fortunatly for the open source community this has lead to development of a light and efficient toolkit, which will continue to improve over time.
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I have written a number of Motif apps over the years, and think that Motif has provided what was required at the time. More complex projects meant using GUI builders like TeleUSE or X-Builder, which are okay but still unfortunately don't compare to those available on Windows. However Motif is at it's end. It's bulky, inefficient and too slow.
Commercial UNIX vendors are going to stick by Motif for some time because there are no alternatives. I would like to see Sun adopt GTK, since this would give GTK are better profile I don't think this will happen for sometime. Or better still GNOME as a replacement for CDE (Okay, thats even more far fetched.)
Both GTK and QT provide very good functionality but the Linux/UNIX platform lacks decent RAD GUI tools, however I think these concerns are being addressed by companies like Inprise etc.
What I don't want to see from these companies is a silly port of MFC GUI components, or an introduction of a new widget set. I think both GTK and QT can continue together for some time.
Another reason for why Motif has not evolved like it should of was because there was no decent competition.
GTK is way cooler than QT in my mind, but you must not forget the reason why GTK came about in the first place. The early version's of GIMP did use Motif, but the GIMP developers were forced away from Motif. Fortunatly for the open source community this has lead to development of a light and efficient toolkit, which will continue to improve over time.