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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference
Audience
This document is written for five audiences:
- Application designers
- Any designer who uses Motif as a basis for building an application
- Widget designers
- Any designer who adds functionality to the existing Motif software
- User interface system designers
- Any designer who designs an interface for users with specific cultural and
accessibility needs
- Window manager designers
- Any designer who uses Motif to govern the layout and controls that affect
application windows
- Common Desktop Environment application designers
- Any designer who builds an application for the Common Desktop Environment
You should read through the entire Style Guide once to familiarize
yourself with all user interface design concepts. If you are already familiar
with graphical user interfaces and their design concepts but need specific
guidelines, use the following table to go to the topic you are interested
in:
For guidelines on... |
Read... |
controls |
The (Control) reference pages |
menus |
The (Menu) or (Menu Type) reference pages |
choices |
The (Action Choice), (Choice), (Choice Type), or
(Dialog Choice) reference pages |
an input device |
The (Device) reference pages |
a specific topic |
The Style Guide and refer to the related
reference pages in this book |
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