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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Toolkit Info Needed
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Date: 27 Mar 89 13:26:51 GMT
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    What are the different toolkits and window managers
    currently available?

There are so many, I fear listing them lest I leave one out and offend
someone. :-) There are several of them on the R3 tape (mostly in the
user-contributed section), take a look.  In addition, most of the major
X vendors have a product toolkit and/or UIMS.

    Are any of the Toolkits going to be "blessed" by MIT, and become a
    "standard" toolkit?

Xt is a (non-exclusive) Consortium standard, but it isn't a "toolkit" by most
people's definition.  There are no efforts at this time within the X Consortium
to standardize an existing toolkit.  There is a newly formed IEEE committee
(P1201) that expects to do something in this area.  There is an effort in the
X Consortium, called the "Core Components" effort, which is an attempt to
define a (Xt-based) toolkit API which is independent of look and feel, and
(hopefully) compatible with existing vendor toolkits (providing portability
between vendors).  Fruition is still a ways off.