[2/29/96 A.Wagner]

I am filing this bug after discussion with aim on what to do....

There are various resources and defaults in Motif that we can adjust to
make Motif more visually appealing and more usable for people. I am
going to list all of them in this bug for completeness.

1. The current 2 pixel default for the chiseled 3D look should be reset to
one (1) pixel. This will alleviate some of the busy look problems with
scrollbars and buttons.

2. Buttons have very little or no white space between the text label and
the border of the button. This is in contrast to the Option menus, which
seem to have twice as much space vertically. The Option menus are
erratic in white space usage horizontally however. The amount of white
space used appears to depend on whats in the menu.

In both cases, the default for white space usage needs to altered so that
labels are not crammed up against borders and option menus and buttons
share the same white space usage rules. Examples of correct usage can
be supplied upon request.

3. Non-editable (read-only) text fields use the chiseled look with a gray
background, a practice that results in repeated user errors because the visuals
are not distinct enough from a editable text field for users to be able to
determine that the field is not editable. If possible, the default for a non-editable
text field should be to have NO border.

4. Typeface defaults should be checked to make sure that there are fallback
resources if an appropriate typeface cannot be found. A possible example of
this can be seen when running the HotJava browser under OpenWindows
in which the wrong typeface is used for the menus. The fallback on all
platforms should be to use Helvetica. This fallback should only be used it
the correct default for that platform (OW, CDE, ?) cannot be used.

5. File Selection Box: We need to figure out what, if any, defaults we can
change with regard to text field labels, hidden files, button labels, and
list labels. Several usability problems with the Motif file selection box
can be eased with better labels.

6. Last, we should check the resources and see what other modifications
can be made to make Motif look and work more usably. And to make sure
that there are fallback defaults that make sense.