Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Motif Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 21:12:48 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 29-Nov-90 Re: Motif Tor Lillqvist@apple.com (881) > After using Motif or OL applications, Andrew does seem a bit ugly... I wonder if there is any possibility of a consensus on this kind of issue, ever in the history of the world. I guess I agree with this on a visual level -- the buttons & scroll bars are much prettier in Motif than Andrew -- but I'm not so sure on the semantic/active control level. In particular, I find it hard to imagine how anyone can prefer Motif menus to Andrew menus. For such reasons, I hope that the Motif-ization of Andrew can be done in components. For example, I'd like to be able to say (via preferences, presumably) that I want Motif-style buttons & maybe scroll bars, but definitely Andrew-style menus. (For the record, the Andrew menus were the result of countless iterations and extensive user testing. I have no idea what went into Motif's menu design, but I have to think it was unduly influenced by a desire to "compete with Macintosh" on its own terms.