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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
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Date: 22 Oct 90 01:05:22 GMT
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Dave 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.

This seems contrary to the aims of OSF/Motif: "Applications must maintain
a consistent look and feel on all platforms to enable the easy transfer
of skills learned on one system to any other in the network."[%]  That said
the Motif style guide is relatively flexible (read loose) and software
vendors do seem to like pushing at the edges of that envelope of flexibility.

		Chris Flatters