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In article <PIERSON.91Jul1163832@xenna.encore.com>, pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) writes:

> [ An excellent post, which is completely correct ]

> The last feature allows for a fairly simple Motif solution: write a
> Motif-based menu server.  The Epoch community (and much of the X11
> community) would be grateful if someone would release such a tool for
> public use and study.

A final point is our view on this. We don't believe that Epoch should
do menus - we believe that it is the wrong place to put that
functionality, for exactly the reasons Mr. Krolikoski brought up - it
would tie Epoch to a particular look&feel for menus. What we'd really
like to see is a standard mechanism where the WM can be requested to
generate a menu, and pass back the result. The code that Dan posted
shows a way to do this with GWM now, which is one reason we have a
preference for that WM.

As part of my thesis work, I will be producing a general Motif widget
server, which will talk to Epoch*, and it should be released about the
time I graduate, later this year.

*We have an internal version in use, although it's _not_ ready for
release.

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