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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Solbourne GUI
Message-ID: <745@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 90 02:54:38 GMT
References: <981@sl10c.concurrent.co.uk>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.COM (Martin Brunecky)
Distribution: comp.windows.x
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <981@sl10c.concurrent.co.uk> ph@concurrent.co.uk (Paul Hamilton,CSDD) writes:
>
>In a recent magazine article, it said that "AT&T Co has signed with Sparc-
>compatible workstation manufacturer, Solbourne  Computer Inc, for distribution
>of Solbourne's graphical user interface development system, the Object
>Interface Library. This agreement includes Solbourne's X Window System based 
>window manager. Current development versions of the Library support
>both Open Loop and OSF/Motif. Computer vendors and software houses can get

	I expect Solbourne folks to respond, but let me express an
	independent (may be not fully qualified) opinion.

	1) Supports both Open Look and Motif. Well .... I would say
	   supports Open Look, which may be forced to LOOK LIKE Motif.
	   In some areas (scrollbars for example), they could and did
	   superb job and allow for a true switch. Some areas, however,
	   such as Motif keyboard traversal, aren't there (and will be
	   tough to impement, considering how tricky the current Motif
	   implementation is). Some areas are no-way. For example, the
	   basic window layout is different between Open Look and Motif,
	   file selection boxes, message boxes are different (there's
	   even a different approach to it). There is just a very
	   definite limit of what you can do with a single toolkit.

        2) OI does not (and can not) use X resource database. Neither
           it has anything like UIL (I am NOT a UIL pusher). Thus any
	   customizing must be provided for by the application code.
	   I consider this a step back.
 
	  
        3) OI is C++ only. May be an advantage - but I would like to
	   see more native implementations of C++ with DEBUG support
	   first.
 
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