lowe@kirin.cs.ubc.ca (David Lowe) (09/26/89)
The XView toolkit that Sun has been distributing seems to be quite nice, except for one major problem. That is that it does not work well with other standard window managers, such as twm. I realize that non-ICCCM-compliant window managers might not support all the features of XView, such as cut and paste. However, the current version seems to completely fail to pass the appropriate window-sizing information to twm, so windows are tiny when they should be large, and enormous when they should be tiny. This is true even when the PRE_R4_ICCCM compile-time flag is used. Are we doing something wrong? Doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of using a standardized window system if only certain combinations of window-managers/toolkits work together? Can't there be any backwards compatibility of new toolkits with older window managers? Will Sun be doing something to fix this? Otherwise, any applications written with XView cannot be used by many people who are running what is currently valid X11. -- David Lowe lowe@vision.ubc.ca or lowe%ubc@relay.cs.net