[osol-discuss] Re: Re: About Solaris (mistakes) and future

[Ian Collins]

Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

>
>As a GUI, I think OPEN LOOK was better than Motif.  As a toolkit, XView
>was a little...hokey, but it was meant to be easy to port to from the
>earlier SunView (non-X).  The OLIT toolkit for OPEN LOOK was at least
>Xt based (like Motif), so it wasn't quite so strange.  Of course, nowadays
>it seems like the popular toolkits are ignoring Xt (and even X resources).
> 
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>
I guess I'm biased as I invested heavily in learning and using XView
just before Sun switched to Motif, but as a toolkit and a piece of OO
design, I found it a joy to use.  Once exposed to it, my code was never
the same again!

I think it was also one of the first bits of code Sun open sourced.

Ian