dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) (03/25/89)
I'm a complete X novice, so please excuse me if these are questions that have been answered a thousand times: I just got X up and running on an Apollo 3000. I have the Xlib Programming Manual and the Xlib Reference Manual. Anyway, I'd like some information on Toolkits. What are the different toolkits and window managers currently available? Are any of the Toolkits going to be "blessed" by MIT, and become a "standard" toolkit? How does one go about getting toolkits? Also, I got xdbx from comp.sources.x, and when I ran make, I found that I did not have the file /usr/include/X11/Lists.h. Is this a special file that only comes with certain toolkits, or is it a standard include file for X? Thanx, David -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ David Geary, Boeing Aerospace, ~ ~ #define Seattle RAIN ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/27/89)
What are the different toolkits and window managers
currently available?
There are so many, I fear listing them lest I leave one out and offend
someone. :-) There are several of them on the R3 tape (mostly in the
user-contributed section), take a look. In addition, most of the major
X vendors have a product toolkit and/or UIMS.
Are any of the Toolkits going to be "blessed" by MIT, and become a
"standard" toolkit?
Xt is a (non-exclusive) Consortium standard, but it isn't a "toolkit" by most
people's definition. There are no efforts at this time within the X Consortium
to standardize an existing toolkit. There is a newly formed IEEE committee
(P1201) that expects to do something in this area. There is an effort in the
X Consortium, called the "Core Components" effort, which is an attempt to
define a (Xt-based) toolkit API which is independent of look and feel, and
(hopefully) compatible with existing vendor toolkits (providing portability
between vendors). Fruition is still a ways off.