Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!m2c!umvlsi!dime!sandy From: sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NuTek Mac Clones Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 21:49:14 GMT References: <97@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> <1991Feb12.174418.21185@convex.com> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Organization: Organization? I thought entropy would take care of that... Lines: 21 In-reply-to: francis@uchicago.edu's message of 13 Feb 91 03:57:01 GMT In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: > Ugh! Motif is pretty ugly, as far as I'm concerned. A matter of opinion of course... > Main question is still compatibility, of course. How do they deal > with apps that want (gasp!) TWO windows? Or apps that currently have > no windows open? Bleah. The description in InfoWorld said the menu moves to the currently active window, so Apps with multiple windows are not a problem... As to how they deal with closing all windows on an App... I don't know... If I were doing it I would conform to the Motif style guide and say closing the last window of an app closes the app as well... Since motif has a notion of "iconify" the ability to have no open windows is less important than with the standard Mac interface... /s -- Alexander Erskine Wise /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Software Development Laboratory /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ WISE@CS.UMASS.EDU /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\ This situation calls for large amounts of unadulterated CHOCOLATE! /\/\/\