Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.
Message-ID: <2935@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 13 Feb 90 19:05:58 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>One thing that occures to me is that this Open Look versus Motif thing
>would be easier to deal with under NeWS. It would be reasonable to implement
>most of the UI in the server, and have the *user* choose Open Look or
>Motif, with NeWS. It's not really reasonable to do this under X.

Unless:

	1) you do it under V.4 or other OSes that support dynamic
	   linking (OSF/1 will do so, right?);

	2) the idea of a single API for both Motif and Open Look 1) is
	   possible and 2) gets done;

and

	3) the APIs are binary compatible;

in which case you might be able to install a Motif window
manager+toolkit libraries to get Motif behavior, or an Open Look window
manager+toolkit libraries to get Open Look behavior, or install them
both and let users set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or its moral equivalent to get a
choice of behaviors.