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Bug 333115

Summary: Complete transition from Motif to GTK
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.6Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 3.7 M5   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Unix All   
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne CLA 2010-12-22 14:42:45 EST
It has become increasingly difficult to add modern new features to the Motif port given that Motif itself has no active development. Support for accessibility, advanced graphics, and transparent shells is unavailable or limited. In addition, there is no available Motif on 64-bit platforms, which has become standard on server class machines. For these reasons we will completely drop support for Motif platforms, and replace them with 64-bit GTK versions. This includes new ports of the platform on AIX and HP-UX.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2010-12-22 14:43:38 EST
This has been completed. I just opened this bug to record it as an official indigo plan item.