re ms windows vs motif gui design differences was re future of unix in article ik apr sneaker ctt bellcore com ik sneaker ctt bellcore com ik su yoo writes aab andy burgess aab cichlid com writes aab in apr texhrc uucp pyeatt texaco com larry d pyeatt writes aab some deleted if you look closely at motif you will see that it is just ms windows with more eye pleasing color and texture the only real difference is that an ms application window can contain other toplevel children while a motif application window launches its children out onto the desktop aab to those of you familiar with both guis is this correct my experience aab with x makes me think that this msw behavior is easily duplicated aab with x but i don t know msw another important difference is that msw doesn t have any window that handle sophisticated geometry management like xmform also i believe that in windows x you re limited to k of resources windows menus icons etc imho this whole discussion named motif looks like ms windogs is totally stupid the only thing remotely influenced here can be the motif window manager that features an arrangement of buttons and menus somewhat similiar to this of the ms w windowmanaging agent however its name is but mwm is only a small part of motif in fact mwm and motif can work without each other and if one doesn t like mwms outfit for some reason he switches to another windowmanager all this doesn t influence motif which is a toolkit of widgets to write applications and this toolkit is imho uncomparable to ms w because it is much more wellorganized and features alot of goodies more than the ms w interface you cannot say a porsche looks like a vw k fer only because they have the wheel and the gear at the same position motif and ms w are complete different worlds only one element of the motif world has some gear and wheel at the same position as ms w o o o brain inside o o o o andre beck abpsoft mehl andre beck irs inf tu dresden de o o o
