Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!milano!bigtex!texsun!alanya!lupe From: lupe@alanya.Central.Sun.COM (Lupe Christoph - Sun Germany Consulting - Munich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga-Sun unix question Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 90 08:49:30 GMT References: <2029@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: news@texsun.Central.Sun.COM Lines: 44 a143@mindlink.UUCP (Ed Meyer) writes: >To Randel Jesup, >I was looking a some software that runs on a Sun-3 (color) under Unix and uses >... I think it was refered to as ... Openlook or Suntools. I was wondering if >this software would have any likelihood in working on an A3000 running Unix (I >know it's still in the future -- planning :-) >Thanks. Well, I'm not Randel Jessup, but since I have not seen an answer to this I would like to add some information and a question. Suntools is the very old window system that ran on Sun's until SunOS 2.x (can't remember the number of the last revision). SunOS 3.0 brought SunView. SunView is actually comprised of several things: a window system, a window manager, a toolkit and a set of programs. It's toolkit was much better than the Suntools API (application programming interface). It uses attribute/value pairs as opposed to fixed argument lists. Then came Open Look. Open Look is a GUI (graphical user interface), i.e. a standard on how widgets (buttons, sliders, etc) look hoe they are arranged and how they behave. There is a toolkit and a window manager that implements the Open Look GUI from Sun: XView and olwm. XView, as it's name suggests, runs on top of X11 and implements an API similar to the SunView toolkit. XView and olwm are available as source from MIT as part of X11R4. There are companies that have ported or are porting to platforms other than Sun workstations (I believe hp and DEC are on the list). It is not possible to port SunView to any other platform as the source code is not available, and nobody would want to port it, anyway. So much for the background, now for the question: Anybody porting XView on AmigaOS on top of the X server from GfxBase ? BTW, I believe I heard that Workbench 2.0 implements the Open Look GUI. Is that true ? I have not really compared the few snapshots I've seen to Open Look on Sun's. -- | lchristoph@Sun.COM (Internet) | Disclaimer: | | ...!unido!sunmuc!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | My employer has a | | lupe@sunmuc.UUCP (German EUNet, domain) | non-exclusive license | | ...!suninfo!lchristoph (Sun Germany customers) | to my opinion. |