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From: whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is that MOTIF thang on expo?!?
Message-ID: <185@sunquest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 89 08:42:54 GMT
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In article <8908171153.AA02417@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU>, steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU writes:
> 
>    Actually (as someone who is definitely more of an OSF fan than a Unix
> International fan), I worry that, simply because the OPEN LOOK-compliant
> X11 toolkit (and maybe a window manager, I don't know for sure) *is*
> distributed for free, OPEN LOOK will win over Motif.

I think it's somewhat apples and oranges to compare XView and Motif.  From
what I've seen of the XView manual, XView provides an OPEN LOOK user interface,
but using a SunView-style programming interface.  If you want an OPEN LOOK
widget set, you'll have to get that from AT&T and it's $1000.

I wonder if it's a little misleading to call XView a "toolkit".  Personally,
when I hear "toolkit" and "X" in the same sentence, I think of widgets.

If OSF is interested in reducing the ranks of OPEN LOOKers, it seems to me
that an interesting thing for them to produce would be MotifView -- SunView
on the programmer side and Motif on the user side.
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