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From: gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Proposal for Toolkit Nomenclature (long)
Keywords: Toolkits Widgets Classnames
Message-ID: <7836@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 19:19:18 GMT
References: <7798@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1967@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: gdykes@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes)
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In article <1967@trantor.harris-atd.com> bbadger@x102c.harris-atd.com 
Bernie Badger) writes:

>>  "XidClass" : not concise; 'X' conveys no information

>I disagree.  X toolkits also have to operate with other non-X, perhaps 
>non-graphical toolkits.  The prefix 'X' helps prevent clashes there too.

Actually, I think  I agree with you.  However, I thought it would be
difficult enough to get a concensus just among Xt based toolkits that
I left discussion of that aspect out.  Adding an X to the widget class,
using Xaw Label as an example, yields XAwLabel or XawLabel.  This would
make the nomenclature proposal much more consistent, since an X is prepended
to other things like library names.

-- 
Gene Dykes, gdykes@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu