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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>
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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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