Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!prism!rhoward From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel Message-ID: <11025@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 3 Jul 90 16:20:18 GMT References: <9007021559.AA00522@lance> <3569@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 22 In article <3569@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes: >There are more important things to do than quibble about which GUI is >better/nicer/cleaner. Motif is perfectly adequate and its PM look and ^^^^^^^ >feel is a big advantage in a world dominated by DOS. ^^^^ Yes, the computing world is somewhat dominated by DOS but PM is *OS/2* which *nobody* really uses. (The only people I know that have even tried were merely curious types.) I know that MS Windows 3.0 is similar and that it runs under DOS, but I don't really believe many people are going to end up using that as a solution. I think the garbage about using Motif *just* because it looks like PM is a bit simplistic. (I do believe there may be *other* good reasons to use (pick) Motif, but this ain't one of them.) Robert -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | STL / MSD | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | | UUCP: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!rhoward |