On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:13:12AM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> The NeWS people didn't give up. They moved over to a startup founded by
> the newly unemployed Steve Jobs and created the NeXT system.
that's news to me do you have any sources to that?
> WindowMaker/BlackBox/Afterstep are all clones of the NeXT window
> manager,
not quite.
NeXTstep and everything decending from it does not have a window manager
(in the sense of being a user controllable application, windows handle
their own titles and borders, moving resizing and such.
just like in MS-windows.
if an app is hanging, you can not move it, iconify it or do anything
else to it other than kill it.
btw. blackbox is not trying to recreate the NeXT theme, afterstep tried
but failed, and only Window Maker has some success in it.
> both GKT+ and QT ship NeXT themes,
i have yet to see screenshots of those.
themes are not really able to recreate the feel.
> and the entire GnuSTEP
> project [1] is trying to recreate the NeXTSTEP system using GhostScript
> as the screen renderer, rather than an official PostScrip interpreter.
huh?
as in linux rather than an official unix???
what is an official postscript interpreter?
> I'd even argue that things like the "main menu" (the Foot menu in GNOME,
> KDE menu, and Start Menu in Windows) are little NeXTisms.
this is definetly not true.
there is no such thing as like a menu from which you could start apps.
the apple-menu from Mac OS X was put in after users complained that
theyd miss it should it go away.
Window Makers menu violates the NeXTstep design.
greetings, martin.
--
interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training,
sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world.
--
pike programmer working in europe csl-gmbh.net
open-steam.org (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at
unix bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at
systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at)
Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
