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From: andy@garnet.berkeley.edu (Andy Lieberman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Athena vs. Open Look vs. DEC Windows vs. Motif vs. PM ???
Summary: What's available?  How do I choose?
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Date: 15 May 89 21:10:35 GMT
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We are planning to write several application programs to be run (initially)
on a SUN 3/50.  We would like our applications to have a consistent"Look and
Feel" and would like them to be consistent with other major X applications 
from other vendors.  I am looking for facts, opinions, and pointers to facts
about the various user interfaces.

Somewhat more specifically:

-- Which of these are actually available now?  How would I go about getting
them?

-- I saw a chart in UnixWorld (Feb. 89) that showed Presentation Manager
running on top of HP Widgets on top of Xt Intrinsics.  Is this the same as
Microsoft's PM for OS/2?  Is it the same in X and OS/2 both in terms of look 
and feel to the user as well as in terms  of toolkit calls to the programmer?

-- How hard is it to port between these?  And how hard would it be to port from
Microsoft Windows?


Thanks in advance,

Andrew Lieberman
Library Systems Office
UC Berkeley