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From: gabe@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Gabe Begeddov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Toolkit Nomenclature
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Date: 16 Aug 89 16:23:43 GMT
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   / hpcvlx:comp.windows.x / gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes) /  6:52 pm  Aug 15, 1989 /
   
   A few months ago, I posted a proposal for Toolkit Nomenclature.  Since
   then, some interested individuals got together at a Birds-of-a-Feather
   meeting at Xhibition '89 and discussed the issue.  We looked at both
   Open Look and Motif nomenclature, and we decided that we would recommend
   that toolkit designers use the Motif conventions.

Glad to hear it. Dana Laursen came up with most of the conventions, and 
more importantly, went to alot of effort to see that they were followed.

       class_name field in the core structure : "Label"

We were also consistent with the class_name and prefixed that with 
"Xm" as in "XmLabel".
   
   I am also going to propose to Robert Scheifler that toolkit prefixes be
   included in the registry that is maintained by the X Consortium.

Sounds like a good idea.
   
   -- 
   Gene Dykes, gdykes@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
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Gabe Beged-Dov gabe%hp-pcd@hplabs.hp.com