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Article #1394Re: Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.
From: Guy Harris
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:05
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:05
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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 References: <IXP1PQ5xds13@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 22