31 Oct
2022
31 Oct
'22
8:33 p.m.
Larry McVoy reports today:
> People like Sunview's api enough that there
was an Xview toolkit which
> was Sunview ported to X10/X11.
The interface was nicely documented in three editions of a book (I
have no entry for the second edition):
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@String{pub-ORA:adr = "981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164, USA"}
@Book{Heller:1990:XPM,
author = "Dan Heller",
title = "{XView} Programming Manual",
volume = "7",
publisher = pub-ORA,
address = pub-ORA:adr,
pages = "xxviii + 557",
year = "1990",
ISBN = "0-937175-38-2",
ISBN-13 = "978-0-937175-38-5",
LCCN = "QA76.76.W56 D44 v.7 1990",
bibdate = "Tue Dec 14 22:55:18 1993",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
@Book{Heller:1991:XPM,
author = "Dan Heller",
title = "{XView} Programming Manual",
volume = "7A",
publisher = pub-ORA,
address = pub-ORA:adr,
edition = "Third",
pages = "xxxvii + 729",
month = sep,
year = "1991",
ISBN = "0-937175-87-0",
ISBN-13 = "978-0-937175-87-3",
LCCN = "QA76.76.W56 H447 1990",
bibdate = "Mon Jan 3 17:55:53 1994",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib",
series = "The Definitive guides to the X Window System",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
I have the first edition on a shelf near my campus office chair, and
continue to use olvwm as my window manager on multiple O/Ses, for 30+
years.
Every window manager designed since seems to fail to understand the
importance of user customizable, and pinnable, menus, which I exploit
to the hilt. The menu customization goes into a single, easy to edit,
text file, $HOME/.openwin-menu.
Compare that to the Gnome desktop, with hundreds of files, many of
them binary, stored in hidden directories under $HOME, and for which
any corruption breaks the window system, and prevents login (except
via a GUI console).
Also. olvwm does not litter a default desktop with icons for
applications that many of use would never use: just a simple blank
desktop, with menu popups bound to mouse buttons.
With olvwm, you can have any number of virtual desktops, not just the
2 or 4 offered by more modern window manaugers, and unlike some of
those, windows can be dragged between desktops.
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