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Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea)
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea) |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:41:03 +0100 (CET) |
"Philippe C.D. Robert" <phr@projectcenter.ch> wrote:
> [...]
> Well, that was exactly my idea when I started this thread...;-)
> Since nobody seemed to like the idea to share foundations with other
> projects due to the superiority of GS, i.e. gtk+, I thought it would
> be logic that the window manager - an important part in the X world
> - should be based on that 'superior' tecyhnology as well, or at
> least make use of it - even if this takes some more time to get to
> the point...
> [...]
Actually, on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the equivalent functions of the
X11 window managers are implemented, AFAIK, as PS code downloaded into
the DPS server. That is: the "window manager" on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP
is not written in Objective-C, but in Postscript.
Actually, it seems to be that all the features we would like to remove
from WindowMaker to make it a dedicated GNUstep window manager, are
features needed actually to support plain X11 applications.
I'm wondering if it would not be better to move these features into a
generic wrapper GNUstep application that would interface and integrate
the X11 applications and the GNUstep environment, independly of the
window manager.
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- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), (continued)
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), ]d, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Nicola Pero, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Nicola Pero, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Helge Hess, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), ]d, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea),
Pascal J. Bourguignon <=
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), David Wetzel, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Dan Pascu, 2001/01/07
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Enrico Sersale, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Enrico Sersale, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Enrico Sersale, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), gnustep, 2001/01/06
- Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea), Adam Fedor, 2001/01/07