Re: [TCLUG:12929] Let's hear it for Domino Server!

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>It's fairly stable, unless you go digging through the preferences like
>crazy like I do (I need to change the font! ;-)  The speed still leaves
>something to be desired, and there are plenty of bugs, but it's moving
>along (it's _much_ faster these days than what it was just a few months
>ago).  
        What did they do to speed it up? I'm clueless about optimizing code
for speed...

>One of the problems they've had is that they went through and
>made their own widget set that looks the same on all platforms.  I kinda
>wish they had just stuck with GTK/Gnome on Unix, then Mozilla would look
>the same as the rest of my applications (these days, Netscape is the
>only app that doesn't look like the others on my Gnome desktop).  Oh
>well, having a cross-platform widget toolkit makes porting easier for
>them.
        would it be possible to build some sort of "shim" libraries that
would allow you to compile it against GTK? (or QT, or Lesstif, or whatever
your preferred widget set is.)
        better question, is it reasonable to do so? (not that
unreasonableness has stopped people in the past... look at Linux itself. ;> ).

>Anyway, you can download the most recent nightly build from
>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/ and test it out
>yourself.
        I think I'll just stick with the stable binaries like they recommend...

>I had to use Lesstif for widgets -- yucky!)  Today the code is pretty
>much completely re-written.
        that's probably a good thing. :)

Carl Soderstrom
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