Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!decvax.dec.com!deccrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!klee From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee Subject: Re: Motif/Open-Look Standards Efforts Message-ID: <1990Sep20.164326@wsl.dec.com> Date: 20 Sep 90 23:43:26 GMT References: Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory Lines: 16 In article , rhyne@qaddafi.cad.mcc.com (Tom Rhyne) writes: |> While attending a CAD Framework standards meeting last week |> I was told that there was an IEEE Standards group working |> on a composite standard that blended Motif and Open Look into |> a single presentation-management interface. IEEE P1201 is looking into this. They aren't getting very far, though. Apparently the best they've done so far is an API that supports subsets of the 2 toolkits, but not enough of either to be really useful. P1201 is part of the IEEE Computer Society. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee