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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Summary of AT&T Open Look Product Overview
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Date: 10 May 88 22:24:08 GMT
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> 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.