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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OpenLook and Motif
Message-ID: <4178@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 20:40:55 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Why won't applications built with the Motif
>widget set work with Sun's OpenLook Window
>system?

At times, I've thought any question that simply asks why something
"doesn't work", or, say, a bug report that simply says something
"doesn't work", should simply be ignored, as there are many possible
failure modes, and in order to answer the question or fix the bug, you
have to determine *which* failure mode is being exhibited.  However, I'm
in a good mode today, so I'll just ask:

	What do you mean by "won't ... work"?

In other words, what is it not doing?

>In other words, what is there about
>OpenLook that does not conform with the
>X standard?

Perhaps nothing.  If the problem is that certain Motifisms don't work,
and you're running, say, "olwm" or "twm", it may be that the Motifisms
in question require "mwm"; there exist private protocols that the Xm
toolkit and "mwm" use, and that Open Look toolkits and window managers
use, to implement some features of their respective looks-and-feels. 
Those are not (yet) part of any X standard.