Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Common toolkit (Was: Is SUN a "PURE PLAYER" in window systems - SunView or OpenWindows???) Message-ID: <4458@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 7 Jan 90 17:04:50 GMT References: <8912162135.AA03025@iris.rand.org> <4290@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4392@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) In article , peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes: >They don't need to be convinced. They're happy with the UI. That's why >I'm opposed to Open Look or Motif... it's forcing a single (new) UI >on folks who are already happy with the one they have. Quite a statement. You have critized Open Look for 16 months, yet you still haven't read the style guide. How do you know what Mac users will say? Especially the power users, where the market is. I know for a *fact* that some Mac users LOVE the features of Motif and/or Open Look. Have you considered that either one (or both combined) might be a SUPERSET of the Mac interface? You have proposed a universal toolkit. One that would work with the native window system of the PC, Amiga or Mac, as well as X or NeWS. >Or are you saying that if you can't afford a 5-10 grand workstation you >aren't worth paying attention to? What commercal reason would a vendor have for creating such a useless toolkit? -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett