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From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
Keywords: motif open look openlook
Message-ID: <645@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 90 19:05:38 GMT
References: <2986@osc.COM> <1990Jun28.111050.17353@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <138082@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <138082@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley) writes:
->In article <1990Jun28.111050.17353@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> willis@ecoult.ncsu.edu.UUCP (Bill Willis) writes:
->> ...
->>Stick with Motif... It looks like it will be around longer and touch
->>more platforms...
->A common mis-perception.  Let me present the following counter-arguments:
->1) Count the number of applications actually shipping.  OpenLook wins
->   by almost 2:1.  Count the number of SunView applications total.
->   Easily the second most widely used look and feel in the world.
->   Think about how easy most of them are to port using xview....

 Maybe if the counter-argument is "Count the number of applications actually
 shipping ON SUNs" and I would be more inclined to agree.

 If one is not running Suns/ATTs/SolBs, then as an end-user/developer I 
 see it just the opposite:

 It's more like 3:1 MOTIF vs. OpenLook.

 Personally, I care less about WHICH GUI is being used versus what
 APPLICATIONS/DEVELOPMENT TOOLS ACTUALLY EXIST for my particular
 hardware platform.