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From: moraes@godzilla.ele.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: Traffic on the X list
Message-ID: <8807141707.AA10118@godzilla.ele.toronto.edu>
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
References: <8807061628.AA22039@quartz.BBN.COM> <3678@pdn.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 11:47:43 EDT

In article <3678@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
>In article <8807061628.AA22039@quartz.BBN.COM>, dm@DIAMOND.BBN.COM ("Dave Mankins") writes:
>     Yes, but a weed can also grow out of control.  Withness all the toolkits
>out there.  There needs to be some consensus on A toolkit in order to make
>applications more portable.

With X10, people grumbled that there weren't any standard toolkits.
With X11, there are too many ... :-)

There aren't too many toolkits for X - the Xt intrinsics seem to have
been accepted as a standard, it seems. I like it - it offers powerful
primitives. You get the Athena widgets and the HP widgets layered on
top on that - use one or both sets.  According to the Open Look press
releases, AT&T is going to layer it on top of Xt as well. (NeWS too).
Majority of the X applications seem to use Xt with Xaw.

The Andrew Toolkit is pretty much a system in its own right - more
like an environment.

CLUE is for Lisp, InterViews is for C++. 

I believe HP ported Xray to X11 to provide an upgrade path for X10
Xray users. They encourage use of the HP widgets.