Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!gnb From: gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 02:52:45 GMT References: <9101281521.AA06109@fis1.shearson.com> <5573@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com's message of 29 Jan 91 19:10:25 GMT >>>>> On 29 Jan 91 19:10:25 GMT, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) said: Guy> One anecdotal bit of evidence exists for the theory stated by the poster Guy> arguing in favor of Motif; a friend of mine here reports that a friend Guy> of his liked the fact that Motif was like either PM or Windows - I no Guy> longer remember which - because when they switched from their PC to Guy> their UNIX box, stuff worked much the same way. That is probably the killer argument for us, too. We have a lot of Win-3 users, so Motif is the logical way to go. Software, pretty even, most we have looked at support both (or soon will). Look&Feel, much of a muchness. Programming, well, we won't have enough X programming experience to decide this until after we make the choice.... Right now, we use twm. Pity we are a Sun site.... -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb