Morphic Documentation -- Eye Candy

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Tue Mar 28 08:23:29 UTC 2000


On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:

> When a lot of companies (led by DEC, if I remember correctly), wanted
> to kill Sun's OpenLook GUI (not happy to have made us adopt the icky
> X11 infrastructure instead of NeWS), they decided to make their Motif
> system visually compatible with the Windows look and feel in order to
> get Microsoft to join their little group.  But they decided to spice
> it up a little and copied the 3D look from NeXTStep for window
> borders, buttons, and control panels (not for menus, for some reason).
> When Windows 3.0 came out, it was compatible with this Motif style as
> promised. Later Silicon Graphics showed how to do 3D right in their
> Irix OS GUI.

The ultimate reference for this is here
	http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/login.html

Login, ls x-windows, cat disaster :-))

  -Bert-





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