Greetings! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm a bit overwhelmed by the volume of suggestions. > > The browser idea has promise except that I don't see how to handle > the graphics. I also don't see how to "command" a browser > through a socket to do things like open a new tab. > Just a suggestion here -- use the browser for hyperdoc, and something else (like gnuplot) for graphics. > But it does give us the advantage of an already portable front > end. The dynamic content doesn't seem to be much of an issue. > There is an asq command that can compute answers to database queries. > And if Axiom could handle server requests it would be easy to > serve up algebra (might even be a reason to send Bill to China). > Remote access should be straightforward if you can get around your local firewall. Is this useful? > I've been clinging to reproducing the prior work as it gives me a > fixed target to achieve. Otherwise it becomes an open-ended design > problem and it will never be finished. Perhaps this is misguided. > > I actually have no idea what gtk is despite the fact that my son was > involved in developing it. And I'm not sure what glade is. > gtk+ it the core C grapics toolkit use by the desktop you are using at the present moment, virtually every application on it. (You use redhat/gnome, if memory serves). The comparable alternate is kde which is analogously built atop the qt library. The Linux world is roughly evenly divided between the two, by my estimation. glade is a program whereby you can create any gui without writing a line of code, but rather by selecting and placing widgets with a mouse alone. A *massive* productivity saver, IMHO. > I did try to "rewrite the xlib calls to MS equivalents" but the model > for graphics is wildly different. I suppose this is why no one has > taken this path. > > I did get the run-process patch you sent but have not yet applied it. > I'm still working on merging the BSD patches which have been hanging-fire > behind the axiom conference work. Hopefully I'll complete that tonight. > > Then I need to look at the GUESS domain and see what it will take to > merge that. > > THEN I'll look at the G/B (graphics/browser) issue. Since I'm not > actively coding this is a good time to debate the issue. > OK, thanks as always for your work! Take care, > t > > > > _______________________________________________ > Axiom-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
