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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: Lesstif (motif compatible) package. 
Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball),
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:04:46 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: I know, you're now going to come back with the argument that one can
: trivially write a blah blah blah widget in Motif (probably using the
: word "virtualize" at least once :-) but that's not the point - I don't
: WANT to have to write custom frobs for Motif each time I want to
: display a triangular button or a flipping-page widget or whatever, nor
: do I want to have to reinvent the generalized canvas widget there.

Trivial and custom widgets and Motif cannot be used in the same
breath.

Warner