Second -The Motif vs. Open Look War

• Motif supported by the bulk of the industry

  • But based on 2nd system syndrome toolkit intrinsics
  • From DECwindows, with HP toolkit leavening, through X Consortium, to X.org - Can we say "big, bloated and slow", and no architectural consistency?

• Sun first tried proprietary route with Open Look

  • Derived from SunView, not very well suited to X's designed
  • When that failed, Sun went open source with OL
    • Too Little, Too Late

• Split developer community, and worst of all, you could not count on either toolkit being available!

  • Predictable results: most applications based on ugly Athena Widgets