Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!geoff From: geoff@nluug.nl (G. Coupe EPD/74 O75/1435) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel Summary: Motif/Windows 3/PM similarity counts Keywords: Motif Message-ID: <1432@epd74hp.nluug.nl> Date: 6 Jul 90 17:10:55 GMT References: <9007021559.AA00522@lance> <3569@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> <11025@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: geoff@epd74hp.UUCP (Geoff Coupe) Organization: Shell International, The Hague, Holland Lines: 21 In article <11025@hydra.gatech.EDU> rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes: >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.) Beg to disagree. We have a mixed community of PC and technical workstation users. There is a big benefit to putting Motif on the workstations and Windows 3.0 on the PCs *because* of the same look and feel - the users can feel at home on either platform, and they don't curse in frustration (and lose productivity through mistakes). Lower retraining costs, lower end-user support costs. Many users switch tools during the course of their day's work: running technical applications, and then writing up results on a PC. We expect some users to access Motif clients via an X server running under Windows, and the similarity of the look and feel will, we hope, create the illusion of seamless integration (at least as far as the user is concerned). - Geoff Coupe These are my views, not necessarily my employers