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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 15 Apr 1996 06:41:54 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>This is hard; this is a political question. My personal answer:
>Motif. It is the only standard GUI ratified by a UNIX standards ...
Just be careful: a GUI need only have the Motif look-and-feel to make
users happy. Don't force the putridity of Xt/MotifAPI upon developers.
For example, Qt and InterViews both try to implement Motif look-and-feel,
and succeed quite well. XForms too I believe generates apps that are
obvious to users. Then there are layers ON MotifAPI, such as WxWindows,
ARM++, etc.
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Warwick
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