On Feb 9,  4:06pm, J M Oldak wrote:
> Subject: Gadgets
> This may or may not have been mentioned before, but I was wondering if it
> was possible to change the standard gadgets that applications use for
> scrollbars, buttons, writeable icons, menus etc.
>
> I guess it can't be that hard, as on these SGI's at uni they have some of
> the exact same apps that I have at home (eg nedit) but they have a
> nicer-to-use and generally prettier interface due to the SGI gadgets.

The SGI apps are usually built around Motif. Motif looks pretty but is a pig on
memory usage and is also commercial. There is a freeware version of Motif
called Lesstif which is under development (and has been for a couple of years
now - its not trivial).

Cheers

Rob Black