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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!pandora.pix.com!stripes From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD Keywords: Motif 386BSD Message-ID: <Buq358.4up@pix.com> Date: 17 Sep 92 12:39:07 GMT References: <1992Sep16.172102.21219@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <w01ngag.hasty@netcom.com> <1992Sep17.044553.1407@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@pix.com (The News Subsystem) Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: pandora.pix.com 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... -- stripes@pix.com "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. - Larry Wall