[Dillo-dev]dillo interface and motif, athena etc
Hello. I have never looked at dillo's source code directly, so I am asking some general questions here I have always liked dillo's speed and use of system resources because it brings back the fun of browsing and works on older workstations too, as every browser should. But I never liked dillo's interface too much. I'd like to make it a proper interface, more like other browsers have, taking inspiration for example from Mosaic's bar and bookmarks, from chimera's simplicity, from HotJava cutsomization, etc. Also, I dislike GTK: they are slow and don't work well on 256 color screens. I would use Motif for writing the interface with having an eye on LessTif of course. Motif/Lesstif is extremely fast and works like a charm on my old 20Mhz IBM RS6k witha 256 color card. Also, most free OS users have one of the either installed too, to run stuff like the excellent NEdit. Being able to install dillo on AIX, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX without having to install an additional toolkit would just be nice. Athena is also present everywhere, but let's say it is a bit primitve. Of course, super-fast :) So I ask: how much of dillo's code is GTK dependent and how difficult would it be to port it to another toolkit? I have quite little experience with toolkits and since I don't know GTK it seems impossible to me alone. One of the nicest things, IMHO, would be a toolkit-independent dillo. Have a look at what the excellet GVIM does or at what amaya does (or, at least, did). Choose your toolkit! I don't know how they structured their code and their graphic drawing, but it would be interesting to investigate. -Riccardo
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Riccardo Mottola