
Lesstif 0.82 has just been released.  Lesstif is a freely available Motif
clone.  It is going to be source level compatible with Motif 1.2. It is
distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).
Lesstif is available from the following URL's

	http://www.hungry.com/products/lesstif/
	ftp://ftp.hungry.com/pub/hungry/lesstif/

or

	http://www.lesstif.org/products/lesstif/
	ftp://ftp.lesstif.org/pub/hungry/lesstif/

WHAT'S CHANGED
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Release 0.82 is a minor release.
What's changed:


  o  Build support for the Cygnus Win32 environment.
     May not be complete yet.
  o  Finally implemented a default functions for TopShadowPixmap
	and HighlightPixmap in Primitive and Manager.
  o  2.0 compatible widgets : GrabShell (internal widget), SpinBox
	should work reasonably.
  o  2.0 : Traits also implemented (which is not a big deal), but
	no work has been done on adding traits to widgets, except
	where needed for SpinBox.
  o  Peter Pilgrim gave us the basics for XmPartOffsets.
	Thanks, Peter.
  o  Build : add run-time library path options (-R on Solaris, NetBSD;
	-Wl,-rpath on OSF/1).
  o  Added the web pages for the LessTif site to CVS.
     Now you can see in lesstif-*/doc/www.lesstif.org what you normally
     get from <A HREF="http://www.lesstif.org">http://www.lesstif.org</A>
  o  Add string to widget converter.
	Apparently Motif 1.2 has this but previous versions didn't.
  o  Various fixes to XmText; one of which was the I-beam cursor overwriting
	initially displayed text.
  o  Build support for SlackWare and RedHat.
  o  Work on popup menus has led to a revamping of the menu system in general.
	Popup menus should show better behavior now, although keyboard focus
	isn't 100% yet.  Grabbing in general should be handled a little better
	now (I'm interested if people get messages about "XtWarning: Asked to
	remove widget not on the grab list").  Mnemonics and accelerators
	should behave better.  Option menus should also behave better,
	in general.


MAILING LISTS
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	    announcements etc.

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SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
-------------------

Lesstif is known to compile on the following platforms (this list is incomplete,
and should only be used as a guideline):


OS      Version      CPU               Compiler        X Version
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Linux   2.0.25        Pentium           GCC-2.7.2.1     X11R6.1 (XFree86-3.2)
                      486               GCC-2.7.1       X11R5
        2.0.0         486               gcc-2.7.2       X11R6 (XFree86-312)
        2.0.18        Alpha             gcc-2.7.2       ?? (assume X11R6.1)
MkLinux 2.0.21        PowerPC           GCC 2.7.2	X11R6.1
Solaris 2.4           SPARC             GCC-2.7.2.1     X11R5
        2.5           SPARC             GCC-2.7.2       X11R5
SunOS   4.1.4         SPARC             GCC-2.7.2       X11R6.1
FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE 386, 486          gcc-2.6.3       ??
        2.1           Intel             GCC-2.6.3       X11R6
        2.2-SNAP      Intel             GCC-2.6.3       X11R6
        2.2-961006-SNAP Pentium         GCC-2.7.2.1     X11R6.1
OpenBSD 2.0           i486              GCC-2.7.2.1     X11R6.1
        2.0           m68k (Sun3)       GCC-2.7.2.1     X11R6
NetBSD  1.2           m68k (Amiga 3000) GCC-2.7.2       X11R6.1
        1.2           SPARC             GCC-2.7.2       X11R6
OS/2    Warp          Pentium           GCC-2.7.2 (EMX) X11R6.1 (XFree86-3.2)
Digital UNIX 4.0      Alpha             GCC-2.7.2       X11R6
AIX     4.1.x         ?? (assume RS6K)  gcc-2.6.?       X11R5
        3.25          ?? (assume RS6K)  gcc-2.6.?/cc    X11R5
HP-UX   9.0.4         HP PA             HP cc           X11R5
------------------------------------------------------------------------------



SUCCESS
-------

Here is a list of applications that are known to work with Lesstif to some
extent. They probably won't work flawlessly though, your mileage may vary.


Geomview: Geometry manipulation package.
URL: http://www.geom.umn.edu:80/software/geomview/


MDI: Multiple Document Interface library.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif/MDI-1.0.tar.gz


Mosaic (2.7b5): Web browser
URL: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/Unix/source/Mosaic-src-2.7b5.tar.gz


Tree: Free Tree widget
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif/Tree.1.0.tar.gz


Xarm-1.2.3: Class library (Linux oriented).
URL: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/Xarm-1.2.3.tar.gz


Xbae-4.6.1: Matrix widget, very flexible, powerful.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif/Xbae-4.6.1.tar.gz


bfacelib: Button face library.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif/ButtonFaceLib.tar.gz


ddd-2.1: Graphical data debugger.
URL: http://sol.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/


gimp: General Image Manipulation Package.
URL: http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp/

knvas:  A free Canvas widget.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif/knvas-1.14.tar.gz


llnlxdir2.0: Xdir.  A Motif enabled ftp client.
URL: http://www.llnl.gov/ia/xdir.html


moxfm-0.98: Motif based file manager (Linux oriented).
URL: http://sugra.desy.de/user/mai/moxfm/


mpdist: Postscript pretty printer with Motif frontend.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/mpdist-3.3.2.tar.Z


mxgdb-1.2.1:  Motif based interface to GDB.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/devel_tools/mxgdb-1.2.1.tar.gz


nedit:  Motif based Text editor.
URL: http://cdibm.fnal.gov:80/nirvana/nedit.html


outline:  Motif based outline widget.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif/outline.tar.gz


vgp1.1: Solid manipulation?
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/vgp1.1.tar.gz


xbill: Game.  Kill the demon god of '95.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/games/xbill-1.1.tgz


xephem_2.9: Astronomy program.
URL: http://iraf.noao.edu/~ecdowney/xephem.html


xmcalendar:  Personal calendar.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/office/xmcalendar-1.1beta.tar.Z


xmcd-2.1:  A Motif based CD player.  (Patch 1, 2 available here, too).
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.1.tar.gz

xmmix-1.2:  A Motif based audio mixer.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmmix/xmmix-1.2.tar.gz


xmt212:  O'Reilley's Motif Power Tools.
URL: ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xbook/Xmt/xmt212.tar.gz


xmtoolbar:  A Motif based toolbar.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/desktop_managers/xmtoolbar-source-1.2.tar.gz


xrolodex.15:  A Motif based Rolodex.
URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrolodex.1.5.motif.tar.Z


yacl:  Yet Another Class Library
URL: http://www.cs.sc.edu/~sridhar/yacl.html




The Lesstif Core Team


