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Re: Motif Standard File|Open

From: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Motif Standard File|Open
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:16:55 +1000
Organization: The SXEmacs Project
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* Johann Oskarsson <Johann> writes:

  > "Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" <johann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
  > [snip]

  >> This means I just might be able to make a better File|Open dialog box
  >> for the basic X look.

  > Looking through a Motif tutorial, I discovered Motif has a standard
  > File|Open dialog of its own.

It is just a pity that Motif is soooo god damned buggy.  Motif is
probably in the top 3 of the most troublesome and bug inducing things
in XE.

(No, this doesn't mean don't do it)

  > You can look at picture, if you want:

  > http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/X_lecture/X_book_caller/#fig:fsb

I wonder if there is something similar for Athena?  Because we'll need
an Athena version too.

  > I'm not sure I'll put any effort into it, unless specifically
  > requested, particularly by Steve.

OK, I'm specifically requesting. :-)

We _really_ do need more modern things like this.

  > Don't be afraid to say "yay" or "nay" or "I don't care",

Yay!

But we can't just stop at Motif dialogs, the other toolkits (or
whatever the correct term is) need to be done as well.

No, Johann, that doesn't mean I want _you_ to do all of them, unless
of course you want to. :-)

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