Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!mephisto!bbn!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X. Message-ID: <13509@garnet.BBN.COM> Date: 16 Feb 90 05:34:13 GMT References: <2935@auspex.auspex.com> <:8S1SU7xds13@ficc.uu.net> Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 14 peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >> Unless: [dynamic linking] + a single API for both Motif and Open Look + >> [binary compatible interface] >That's a good point. If you can get the APIs together for Motif and Open >Look it should be possible to let the user select them. So "unreasonable" >isn't a fair description. >Is anyone working on this, though? Yes, someone is working on this. There is a project at AT&T called N3 (last time I checked up on it) that's trying to define a single API that will produce either OpenLook or Motif look-and-feel, depending on which library you link with at runtime. Unfortunately, it's an Xt-based programming model (unfortunate if, like me, you don't like the Xt model in the first place), but at least it's an attempt to do the right thing.