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From: rowe@cme.nist.GOV (Walter Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.windows.openlook
Message-ID: <9004081859.AA25212@stella.cme.nist.gov>
Date: 8 Apr 90 18:59:29 GMT
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>>>>> On 4 Apr 90 15:05:59 GMT, crdgw1!barnett@uunet.uu.net  (Bruce Barnett) said:

Bruce> In article <1990Apr4.015351.25597@dasys1.uucp> mls@dasys1.uucp
Bruce> (Michael Siemon) writes:

Bruce>     I'd like to request discussion towards creating a new group to
Bruce>     be called comp.windows.openlook, intended for programming and
Bruce>     product discussions of stuff built on the Open Look(*) X11
Bruce>     toolkit.

Bruce> This is a bad name. OpenLook is a user interface. There is
Bruce> nothing that says it is related to X.

You make a good point in that OpenLook isn't tied directly to X.  The
author should have phrased his question differently.  But, the name
should still be OK since it doesn't make any specific reference to X.

-wpr
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Walter P. Rowe, <rowe@cme.nist.gov>
System Administrator, Robot Systems Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology