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From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Subject: Re: Motif for 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Oct9.165250.12952@mdl.sandia.gov>
Organization: Sandia National Labs
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:52:50 GMT
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In article <1992Oct7.161544.2193@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>
>The question that remains unasked through all this is:  
>
>What is it the 386BSD/Linux user community wants out of a widget set?  Do 
>you want the polished 3D look of Motif?  Do you want uil?  Do you want mwm?
>Are you going to port a commercial application from Brand X?
>...
>And if you want Motif for its 3D look, may I humbly suggest Xaw3d.

Or Ousterhout's Motif look-alike Tk!!
-- 
Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>