TextAWT (was: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2)

1999-07-04 Thread Christoph Terhechte
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Kent Smith wrote: > Here's a link - don't know if it's the one refered to below. > > Text AWT for Java > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/1239/ I've downloaded, unzipped (attention, under Linux, use unzip with the -U option or else you'll lose the uppercase letter

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-07-02 Thread Kent Smith
Here's a link - don't know if it's the one refered to below. Text AWT for Java http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/1239/ Kent At 01:44 PM 7/2/99 +0100, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I tried looking for an ncurses library once, the only thing I found was a > > JNI implementat

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-07-02 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I tried looking for an ncurses library once, the only thing I found was a > JNI implementation which I didn't find useful. Got a URL handy? If the Java API is okay, it'd allow for using it right away until somebody comes up with a pure Java port for the same API.

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-07-01 Thread zun
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Christoph Terhechte wrote: > What about ncurses? I believe a text mode windowing toolkit for Java > would beat everything else in speed - and most kinds of applications > don't really need to run under X. Many of my favorite programs like > pine, tin, emacs, mc are happy wit

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-07-01 Thread Christoph Terhechte
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3.) to counter the speed issue, one solution would be to use gjc > (sourceware.cygnus.com) and add X or other graphic support to it. > One person is working on a gtk binding for AWT but I feel that's the > wrong way to go. Another library of interes

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Tony Dean
Cliff, When I hear Desktop I think of my whole fvwm2 environment. Pop up one of three menus anywhere on the desktop at the click of a mouse button. A nice toolbar with things I need often. How about virtual desktops? I cannot think of working with less then 6 but I usually take the default of 16

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread zun
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Cliff Baeseman wrote: > The speed is not that big a issue. I am running a desktop written in > jbuilder on linux rh6.0 P90 32 meg of ram my test machine It is just as fast > as gnome or even a little faster. > > The thing is the desktop does not even do that much work the a

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Cliff Baeseman
t: Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2 >> > >> > I've given the project some thought and it seems not so far fetched, if >> > you look at Novell 5 they sport a Java desktop for administration. >> > >> > If speed is a factor we may need to get sourc

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Thomas Wernitz
> > > > I've given the project some thought and it seems not so far fetched, if > > you look at Novell 5 they sport a Java desktop for administration. > > > > If speed is a factor we may need to get source to the JDK, but that's > > not hard. > > Not to sound too heretical, but if you want to me

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Jeff Galyan
Theoretically, if you're doing most of the time-critical stuff in native code and using JNI and the invocation api, then you could have a workable desktop. One idea that springs to mind would be to use the invocation api to create a VM instance when the desktop is initialized, so you don't have t

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Nathan Meyers
Michael Holst wrote: > > I've given the project some thought and it seems not so far fetched, if > you look at Novell 5 they sport a Java desktop for administration. > > If speed is a factor we may need to get source to the JDK, but that's > not hard. Not to sound too heretical, but if you want

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread zun
Hi Cliff, On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Cliff Baeseman wrote: > I do not know if anyone is interested in this yet but here goes. > >I am not happy with the GNOME or the KDE desktops so I have started > building a desktop on top of a minimal RH 6.0 installation. I am using > JBuilder3 on windows to c

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Holst
I've given the project some thought and it seems not so far fetched, if you look at Novell 5 they sport a Java desktop for administration. If speed is a factor we may need to get source to the JDK, but that's not hard. The project is quite interesting, I'd like to be in contact. - Michael --

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Gerald de Jong
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Tony Dean wrote: > >%_Cliff Baeseman wrote: > > so I have started building a desktop on top of a minimal RH > > 6.0installation. > What is the minimal RH 6.0 in this context? Are you doing without X > somehow? that would be a fabulous approach! there must be a pared down ker

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-29 Thread Tony Dean
Cliff Baeseman wrote:  I do not know if anyone is interested in this yet but here goes.    I am not happy with the GNOME or the KDE desktops Havn't tried Gnome yet but I understand that it is window manager neutral. I have used CDE extensively and don't care much for KDE. Put KDE on my machine a

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-29 Thread Michael Holst
Wont this be painfully slow?? - Michael > Cliff Baeseman wrote: > > I do not know if anyone is interested in this yet but here goes. > >I am not happy with the GNOME or the KDE desktops so I have started > building a desktop on top of a minimal RH 6.0 > installation. I am using JBuilder3 o

Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-29 Thread Cliff Baeseman
I do not know if anyone is interested in this yet but here goes.      I am not happy with the GNOME or the KDE desktops so I have started building a desktop on top of a minimal RH 6.0 installation. I am using JBuilder3 on windows to code the desktop. This is working out very well and JBuild