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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
Keywords: motif open look openlook
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.201647.3436@alphalpha.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 20:16:47 GMT
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In article <1990Jul1.061632.20280@media.uucp> rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii) writes:
>willis@ecoult.ncsu.edu (Bill Willis) writes:
>There are several vendors who DO NOT bundle Motif with their systems.
>This poses several non-trivial problems.

Which exist regardless of the toolkit you use.

>Let's say a person writes an application with uil.  He must choose one of these
>headaches:
>	1) the application will be HUGE (no shared libraries)
One reason why no one in their right mind would use UIL :-).  But it
has nothing to do with the advantages or disadvantages of the 
Motif toolkit.

>	2) distribute the shared libraries with the application and pay
>		OSF their distribution fee.
>	3) Compatibility risks because the shared library that the user
>		provides (either vendor supplied or self generated) doesn't
>		work like they should.
Note that if you wanted to use shared Xview libraries you would have
exactly the same problem.  Moreso - less vendors bundle xview.  What
has this got to do with Motif?

>would be condemned to such a fate.  Personally, I think it would be
>great if vendors provided multiple interfaces and the the user pick and
>choose, but OSF licensing would make this too cumbersome.

Funny that Solbourne didn't think so.  Sure I agree, it would be
great.  Too bad there isn't a toolkit in the world which is capable
of *fully* supporting multiple GUIs.  Why don't we start writing code now
with what we've got instead of arguing about what we ought to have.
I have no desire to be writing applications for OS/2 five years from now.

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