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From: pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri)
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Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5?
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Date: 29 Jun 90 13:53:52 GMT
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Okay, since you ask, here's my 2 cents worth.

I like the athena widget set because it is "middle of the road".
I hate these Open Look vs. Motif wars and the constant bashing.

But I think the athena set could use some improvements in the area of
form layout. For instance, it would be nice to have the right side of
all of your widgets line up. 

In addition, a general purpose graphing widget would be wonderful. I
know you can always draw in a pixmap now but I'm talking about a widget
that takes care of axis', scaling, etc.

It would also be nice if you could select more than one item in the List
Widget without the highlighting of the previously selected items 
disappearing.

And it would be wonderful to be able to have more than one font in a text
widget. (Change fonts on the fly.)

Like I said, I like the Athena Set for its simplicity and I don't have
to side with any particular vendor.

Tom Pusateri
pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu