Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[cjtan@xxxxxxx (C. J. Kenneth Tan)]

What I really don't quite get is what about Motif window manager, mwm?
What is going to happen to it?  I know this is like fortune telling, but I
just thought it would be something to think about.  From what I see,
Motif, CDE will continue to live on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, 
etc.  I am sure there will be people who are using Linux as a cheap
platform to do the work that will finally target any one of those machines
-- I am one of them.  Will the Gnome stuff be a separate stream then?
Will Gnome stuff be the only thing on Linux then?  I have no knowledge
about Gnome at all, but what is it essentially?  How different will it be
compared to Motif?  

Since there are so many different window managers in Linux, has anyone
done any GUI research in the development of the window managers at all?
It looks like there isn't much computer-human interaction (CHI) studies
being done in the development of window managers like Enlightenment.  I
don't mean to start a flame war here, but I think it is a very good
intellectual discussion topic, especially for someone interested in CHI.  

Personally, I find the article in "The Graphical User Interface: An
Introduction" by Bernard J. Jansen very interesting.  It was
published in the SIGCHI Bulletin, April 1998, by the Association
of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human
Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).  Has anyone else read the article?  Does anyone
have any comments about it?  

Regards,
Kenneth Tan
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:

> 
> Aaron Seelye wrote:
> > 
> > pardon my ignorance, but what is this 'e', and how does it relate to
> > gnome (another project about which i know little)
> > --
> 
> e is the enlightened windowmanager, or enlightenment
> gnome is essentially the GNU kde
> In the future your window manager and gnome will interact, and gnome
> will take over some of the duties currently performed by your
> windowmanager.  The window managers striving for gnome-compliance at
> this time are:
> Icewm
> Enlightenment
> WindowMaker
>  
> WindowMaker will also be the de facto windowmanager for GNUstep, if
> GNUstep ever gets completed.  GNUstep is a port of the NeXT gui to linux
> using 100 0.000000ree software essentially. That is oversimplifying, but you
> get the gist.
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