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From: randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OSF statements about OPEN LOOK
Message-ID: <9009052346.AA27999@erik.uucp>
Date: 5 Sep 90 23:44:40 GMT
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uunet!auspex!guy  (Guy Harris) writes:
>Does Motif have its own protocols for communication between Motif
>clients and "mwm"?  

I have read that the modal dialog features of Motif depend on mwm in
what is probably a private protocol.  This allows either "application
modal" (user can interact with other clients) or "system modal" (answer
my question or turn off the power...).   Keyboard focus traversal under
Motif is another interesting feature I'm eager to try under alternate
window managers, but I have no evidence that it uses a private protocol.
The pushpin protocol Open Look uses may be private (I've seen pushpins
work under mwm, but I could be experiencing an alternate reality), but
another point to consider is that I doubt that pushpin failure would
wreak as much havoc as modality failure... If the application is SURE
it's behaving modally and isn't, some interesting behavior could
result.