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Subject: Re: Better terminal emulators than shelltool and cmdtool
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Date: 26 Feb 91 15:25:42 GMT
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 	From: uunet!auspex.auspex.com!guy (Guy Harris)
        
        (I *assume* AT&T provides
	source to that version of "xterm" with the appropriate part of their
	S5R4 source offering; if so, it will probably become part of Sun's X
	offering in SunOS/S5R4).

Then you would probably assume that since the code for a widget-based olwm,
file manager, workspace manager, and xterm have been included with the Xt+
source on which OLIT is based ever since version 1 (or
even before for all I know), they would be part of Sun's offering now as 
alternatives for the XView-based ones, allowing support for those Open 
Look features on which XView and OLIT don't yet interoperate.

And you would further assume that folks that want to use OLIT to do 
development including such features as drag-and-drop, which don't yet
interoperate between XView and OLIT (nee' Xt+), wouldn't have to wait for
months and months MORE to begin, since Sun would be committed to OLIT
development as they are to XView.

And you might assume that Sun would have modified XtAppMainLoop() to 
support RPC dispatching, in much the same way they have this support
in the XView notifier.

And you might even assume that Sun would support or resell Open Look 
Express (a.k.a. UIMX), a truly wonderful development tool but widget based,
not XView based, or at least support OLIT from Guide, which is extremely 
limited compared to UIMX but at least would let you ask your marketing 
people if this sort of look is what they had in mind.

And you might be wrong.

(Note: In rereading this, I feel I should state that any warmth of feeling
should be seen as directed not at the innocent Mr Harris, but in another
direction entirely...)


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