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From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD
Keywords: Motif 386BSD
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Date: 17 Sep 92 12:39:07 GMT
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In article <1992Sep17.044553.1407@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
[...XView...]
>As a window manager?  Yes, unless you were using an X terminal (they suck
>at drawing ovals, which xview requires).

Last I looked XView didn't draw *any* ovals, it used a font with diffrent sized
button parts pre-drawn in it.  This (1) is faster, and (2) look better then
the X rendered ovals at small sizes.

>As a base for hacking a Motif work-alike?  Maybe.  I have heard of this being
>done.

I wish someone would do it for free :-)   In fact even a free OPEN LOOK Xt
baised widget set would be great...
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