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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference

Guidelines

This section includes required and recommended guidelines for the topic. However, the specific requirements may not apply to your application. For example, the Selected menu topic includes required guidelines for a Paste choice on the Selected menu. If you do not supply this choice on your Selected menu, the requirement does not apply.

This section may also include guidelines related to specific designer or user tasks, such as providing keyboard activation.

Required
When the word Required precedes the statement, the statement is considered to be fundamental to creating an application that complies with the standard and that is easy to use and consistent with other interfaces.

Recommended
When the word Recommended precedes the statement, the statement is recommended to create an interface that is easy to use and consistent with other interfaces.

Optional
When the word Optional precedes the statement, the statement is considered to be optional. That is, the guideline might be useful to consider when creating your interface, but is neither fundamental nor recommended.

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