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From: david@ics.com (David B. Lewis)
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Subject: GUI comparisons
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In article <141099@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan
Heller) writes:
|> In article <275@uninet.vbo.dec.com> wendl@munich.enet.dec.com (uli)
writes:
|> > Are there any comparisons of Open Look and Motif available?
|> I am co-authoring an article for "Sun Observer" that compares the
|> two GUIs.  Note: despite the magazine's name, *I* do not take
political
|> sides and will not slant the article in favor of Motif or OpenLook.
|> The article is slated for a December issue.

Note that OSF members and possibly all interested have access to a white
paper
"OSF/Motif: The Graphical User Interface for Open Systems" which
compares the
two, mostly on issues other than the interfaces themselves; the authors,
who
are not identified, are somewhat less even-handed than Dan.

I suppose the best comparisons of the interfaces on technical grounds
would
come out of IEEE 1201 reports. (?)

Otherwise: you might want to obtain the Style Guides for each. 


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