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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by sedatk on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:00PM (#29399016)
On the contrary, I'd found Motif's 3D look so elegant and cool that I'd even incorporated it in my DOS-based GUI library. This is a BlueWave/QWK reader I'd written with it: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine
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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by int_19h on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:02PM (#29400180)
Your widgets look like they have a 1px 3D border? The Motif that I remember was much bulkier, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/aebBFsx.jpg
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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by mkl on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:56AM (#29402309)
They both look very close in terms of pixel widths, though the Motif screenshot is much higher resolution so there they actually look thinner to me.

The window borders are 5px, vs. Motif's 6px (in your screenshot). The Motif button borders are actually thinner (2px vs. 3px). The Motif frames around lists are thicker (2px vs. 1px).

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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by sedatk on Saturday December 04, 2021 @02:26AM (#29439364)
Probably. I couldn’t afford long draw times (it ran on 386SX-25Mhz), so I usually opted for 1px for everything. The resolution was lower too (640x480) leaving less space for for decoration.
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