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- From: mh@awds.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman)
- Subject: SunSoft's OpenWindows Directions (is full speed backwards)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.060108.5323@awds.imsd.contel.com>
- Organization: GTE Contel Federal Systems, Westlake Village, CA
- References: <lmbdp8INNomg@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:01:08 GMT
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- In article <lmbdp8INNomg@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> pierre@stendhal.Eng.Sun.COM (Pierre Bedard (SunSoft Windows Marketing)) writes:
-
- >OLIT IMPROVEMENTS
- >The mid 1993 release of Solaris will feature major
- >improvements in the OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit (OLIT)
- >based on X11R5 intrinsics. A candidate for IEEE
- >standardization, you can easily port applications
- >developed with OLIT to European and Asian versions. You
- >can dynamically customize OLIT applications at runtime,
- >allowing better control of fonts and colors. Sporting the
- >same look and feel of applications developed with
- >SunSoft's popular XView toolkit, OLIT is an intrinsics-
- >based alternative.
-
- Sun moving to X11R5 is dumping xnews is somewhat understandable.
-
- Offering OLIT as the direction to go in windowing toolkits (in my
- humble opinion) is *not*.
-
- If the best thing that Sun can come up with is yet another crusty
- intrinsic based toolkit they should just throw in the towel toolkit
- wise and offer someone else's toolkit. Something decent like OI or an
- openlook version of Tk or interviews. Yes I suppose OLIT is tolerable
- but it's just the same-old-sh*t. If had to use a intrinsic based
- toolkit I would just use the OSF motif intrinsics toolkit and be done
- with it.
-
- I am not implying they should keep with TNT and NeWS (that's pretty
- much hopeless). But give us *something* reasonable. If all Sun is
- going to come up with is a pointless no brainer like OLIT they should
- just throw in the toolkit towel.
-
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