Subject: OpenLook, was: What is Motif
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/29/1998 20:18:53
At 2:56 Uhr +0100 29.01.1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> There is probably an OpenLook library as well (i.e. Sun's
>proprietary interface).

"OpenLook" was an AT&T creation that Sun adopted when they went SysV. Their
implementation is (was) called OpenWindows (capitalization?).

There is a freeware library from Sun called XView (v3.2) that comes with
two window managers (olwm and olvwm, see also
	<http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/olvwm.html> )
and basically implements OpenLook l&f.

Apparently, programming against the XView API is a lot easier than against
the Motif API. XView was quite popular in linuxtown for some time and was
used for tools like xvmount, workman. The above url has a reference to an
ongoing file manager project.

	hauke


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