Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!janssen@holmes From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Window Managers and Client Menus Message-ID: <3198@arisia.Xerox.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 01:23:18 GMT References: <663@thor.wright.EDU> <654@thor.wright.EDU> <1839@bacchus.dec.com> <671@thor.wright.EDU> Sender: news@arisia.Xerox.COM Reply-To: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen) Organization: PARC.Xerox.COM Lines: 14 In-reply-to: adatta@odin.wright.edu (Amitava Datta) In article <671@thor.wright.EDU>, adatta@odin (Amitava Datta) writes: >... At least we will have a uniform interface to all menu. Well, not really. Only to those clients that use *your* menu package, which is built into a window manager. Clients that use the Motif or Open Look packages will present their menus themselves, and will look different from your menus. You really can't win. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304