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From: jip@alw.nih.gov (john powell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: RE:Spreadsheet for Sun w/ X support.
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Date: 14 Sep 90 12:21:14 GMT
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In article <67791@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, jac@gandalf..llnl.gov (James
Crotinger) writes:
||> 
||>   Will these Motif-based spreadsheets (and other products, for that
||> matter) work under a non-motif window manager? In particular, will 
||> they work under TWM and OLWM?
||> 
||>   Jim
||> 
|>Well, Jim, you said a mouthfull.  I've had the opportunity to try many X
|>applications at NCD and this is one of the biggest problems. 
|>Application developers seem to choose a particular toolkit, then use the
|>window manager from that toolkit throughout development, never testing
|>with another wm.  In some cases (I won't mention names, but you know who
|>you are) they even do real no-no's like making the application depend on
|>click-to-focus capability.

|>Other problems I've seen include not being able to use X cut-and-paste
|>(again, you know who you are) and requiring their own special fonts
|>(like there aren't enough different fonts in the standard X release, so
|>they invent a few new ones).



|>It's up to us users to keep these guys on their toes.It's up to us users to
|>keep these guys on their toes.

If we want to keep them on their toes, then we should IDENTIFY those products
that depend on OLWM or MWM or click-to-focus or ....

			jip@alw.nih.gov
			(John Powell)