Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: NeWS artistry Message-ID: <5356@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 19 Feb 90 11:38:01 GMT References: <76870@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <15521@well.UUCP> <1504@ole.UUCP> <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan17.033134.4139@uncecs.edu> <1752@hjuxa.UUCP> <2716@bacchus.dec.com> <26919@cup.portal.com> <9202@pixar.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: mccoy@pixar.UUCP (Daniel McCoy) In article <9202@pixar.UUCP>, mccoy@pixar (Daniel McCoy) writes: >If NeWS is so elegant, then how come it isn't the "default" window system >offered by Sun yet? Priorities. OpenLook and X are more important that NeWS right now. Also - X keeps changing. (and getting faster). And when Sun does come out with a "default" window system, it will be OpenLook. Since they have two X/OpenLook window managers, (olwm - X based, and pswm - NeWS based), they might default to the fastest window manager, instead of the more flexible one. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett