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From: nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Motif restrictions
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.192254.12600@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jul 90 19:22:54 GMT
Reply-To: nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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This is a question to which I am expecting the answer "no", but it seems
worth asking.

    Does anyone have a reasonable list of UNDOCUMENTED Motif restrictions,
    preferably with a classification into the following categories?

        More-or-less plain bugs
        Temporary restrictions
        Long-term restrictions
        Fundamental design restrictions

I have been converting from the HP widgets (with HP's X11.2-and-a-bit) to
Motif and X11.3, and notice that a great many of the restrictions of the
former have gone.  Unfortunately, a great many remain, and I have no easy
way of telling whether they are temporary or permanent.

If anyone is maintaining such a list, I am happy to provide input, but I
do not have the time (or expertise) to maintain such a list myself.

Nick Maclaren
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk