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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
Message-ID: <90Oct21.234210edt.509@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 90 03:42:27 GMT
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dgh@Unify.Com (David Harrington) writes:
>2. Motif "style" is more flexible than Open Look, thus allowing the hardware
>vendors to offer, to a certain extent, their own unique look and feel using a
>"standard" toolkit.

Sigh -- has the wheel turned full circle?  As I remember, the great
toolkit and GUI hoo-hah started when people wanted a more uniform look
and feel across different applications and different platforms from
different vendors.  (and different vendors wanted their own unique
look and feel to be the "de facto" standard)

What I've found amusing lately is the subtle implication that Motif
and Open Look applications will not co-exist on the same screen, and
that to program X one must either use Motif or Open Look...

	Mark.