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.