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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
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Date: 14 Aug 90 00:27:20 GMT
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bochner@lange.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner) writes:
>I haven't tried it, but I'm rather suspicious about the robustness of XView,
>on the following basis. Sun has put a lot of work into their Desk Suite
>programs, SunWrite, SunDraw, etc. So far these programs are available 
>_only_ in SunView versions. 

I believe that all of these programs are available for machines running
OpenWindows version 2.  OWN 2.0 also includes the complete set of "DeskSet"
tools (filemgr, printtool, tapetool, calendar, etc.), all of which are 
written with XView, and all of which leave the vanilla X11 tools to which 
most of us are accustomed in the dust.

(Of course, they have their share of glaring stupidities, like the fact
that the tape tool won't deal with remote tape drives and there's no way
to quit textedit from the keyboard, but that's not XView's fault.)

The new 3-D look on XView is pretty cool, too :-)  The longer I use both
Open Look and Motif, the more convinced I become that Open Look is the
way to go for the future.  I can't explain why, but it just "feels" much
more natural in almost every respect... perhaps all that human factors
work that reportedly went into the design really paid off.
--
 Matt Landau			Oblivion gallops closer,
 mlandau@bbn.com		    favoring the spur, sparing the rein.