[comp.windows.x] Stds Compliancy

frank5@mars.njit.EDU (Frank D. Greco CIS Adj. Prof.) (04/15/91)

To vendors of X products:

	Please indicate in your marketing brochures what *specific* level
	of OPENLOOK or Motif compliancy that your product belongs.
	And also a guarantee of ICCCM ball-playing might be nice too.


Food for Thought Dept.

	WWOTS, it might be nice if there was an (non-profit) organization
	(the MIT folks are overburdened already, so lets look elsewhere)
	that puts products (commercial and public domain) thru the 
	compliancy wringer.  If a product passes ICCCM and UI standards,
	then it would have the seal of approval (in terms of stds compliancy
	that is...).  I thought that either the OPENLOOK committee or the 
	OSF/Motif folks might be appropriate; however they would not be 
	expected to test for ICCCM stds (not to mention security stds).

	This nit was resulting from spending many hours on using a
	commercial X product, then finding out it broke many of the
	ICCCM rules (eg, clients doing their own window management...
	olvwm/olwm didn't even know these clients existed!).
	The vendor's reps didn't even know there were different OPENLOOK 
	levels of compliancy and didn't know what the ICCCM was!

	Any thoughts folks?

	Frank G.