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In article <16959@chaph.usc.edu> jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>>In article <9877@castle.ed.ac.uk> aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
>>
>>   Are there any plans for the above?  If not, anyone interested in putting
>>   such a set together?
>>
>>What's wrong with the Athena widget set?
>
>Heh.
>
>Heh heh heh heh heh.
>
>Bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!
>
>What's wrong with Xaw?  The List widget sucks.  The Box widget sucks.
>The AsciiText widget *really* sucks.  The Form widget is decent,
>until you try to resize it.  The Dialog widget sucks even worse
>than the Text widget.  Other than that, it's not half bad.
>
>But seriously, Xaw is:
>
>>[...]  free, it works, it
>>has a nice, simple look-and feel (none of that strange 3D shadow
>>stuff), and there are lots of programs written using it.

Actually, I think it has a trademarked look and feel, it's called:
     "CheezyLook"
Slogan: "CheezyLook: Better than an adm3."

:)

>
>and personally, I like it better than OLIT or the Motif
>toolkit.  It's missing a *lot* of functionality, though.
>
>
>
>--jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu


All humor aside, it is OK, but there are some major shortcomings
too. I think a GNU widget set would be quite appropriate.

-Chris	/*I'd never speak for Purdue -- they couldn't pay me enough.*/