Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Summary of AT&T Open Look Product Overview Message-ID: <52740@sun.uucp> Date: 10 May 88 22:24:08 GMT References: <8805100028.AA15653@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> <8805101611.AA14896@tuscany.orc.olivetti.com> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 16 > Note that OPEN LOOK is NOT an "X Window System 'toolkit' and development > environment". Correct. > Rather, as your message itself goes on to say, OPEN LOOK defines a user > interface toolkit that is window-system-independent. It just happens that > two of the first implementations will be for/"on top of" X and NeWS. More correctly, Open Look (scr*w the lawyers, I hate the capital letters) defines a set of user interface guidelines that provide a certain "look and feel". There will be several toolkits that implement it; two of the first such toolkits will be on top of X11 and NeWS. Open Look doesn't define a particular toolkit with a particular programming interface; I don't think the Xt-based implementation and the NDE-based implementation will have the same procedural interface, for example.