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nemesis wrote:
> speaking as a technical Linux user, I don't care about GUIs, Xlib, GTK+,
> Tcl... let alone Swing or Eclipse requiring a whole heavy, bloated and
> redundant OS-wrapper (read Java).

I like the command-line interface, myself, but there is a (apparently
small) group of people that have been asking for a Linux GUI; if there
is an easy way to meet their needs, I see no reason not to. I also don't
 see a problem with keeping the CLI interface around in addition to a GUI.

I might also add that Eclipse does not use Swing, it uses SWT (which is
a bit more lightweight than Swing). In addition, Java programs written
against SWT can fairly easily be compiled to native code via GCJ (this
is what Fedora does for their Eclipse binaries), eliminating the
overhead of the JRE altogether. :-)

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William Tracy
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you can draw things
quicker in POV-Ray than you can using a pencil and paper.
    -- Dylan Beattie
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