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I believe it was standardized and built in, add peer pressure and it was just short of being enforced.


There were also the Amiga style guides that were published with 2.0 that detailed how developers should build application user interfaces. The fragmentation in Linux/Unix distributions means that this kind of consistency is pretty much impossible, although FreeBSD does a much better job of being consistent than $majorlinuxdistros.




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