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From: chrise@bcsaic.UUCP (Chris Esposito)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
Message-ID: <27508@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 20:18:43 GMT
References: <2986@osc.COM> <1210034@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <1210034@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
>Indeed, I believe the people who wrote Looking Glass (a desktop manager
>for X11) used their own Motifish library. (If I'm wrong please correct
>me; that was the impression I got from a trade rag article and we all

"Motifish" - what a delightful word.  I've always suspected there was
something fishy about OSF & Motif.  I'll ask my grocer if I can get a pound of
this new sort of fish the next time I'm in there.  "Open Look fish" doesn't
have nearly as nice a ring to it.

But seriously, folks...

The folks from Visix (Looking Glass developers) were just here for a demo.
What they told me was that they have an Xlib-based (yes, all the way down 
at that level) toolkit that they used to get the Motif look & feel.
They claimed large performance improvements over implementations using the
standard Motif libraries.  The demo was on a DEC 3100 and performance was
quite impressive.

Looking Glass does not distinguish between mouse buttons (Looking Glass user's
Mnaual, page 11); from what I remember of the Motif Style Guide, each mouse
button has a different name/function assigned to it.  While such trivial
"violations" of the Style Guide mean very little to me, they may be much more
important to others.



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