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From: mitch@zippy.osf.org (Mitch Trachtenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Overview of motif
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Date: 3 Aug 89 13:10:35 GMT
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In article <3741@cn.sei.cmu.edu> smp@sei.cmu.edu (Stan Przybylinski) writes:
>A colleague of mine asked me if I had seen a description of motif in this
>space.  I couldn't remember one and searching didn't yield anything either.

	Briefly, Motif is the user interface software offered by 
the Open Software Foundation.  It consists of a window manager, widget
set, User Interface Language, and Style Guide.  The widget set is derived
from the DEC and HP widget sets, and has the HP 3-d appearance.  The style
guide aims at making a user's transition from IBM's Presentation
Manager (or Microsoft Windows) to Motif nearly transparent.  The User
Interface Language allows the widget hierarchies and (for example) string
literals to be specified outside of an application's code, for easy change.

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