reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) (12/15/88)
I would recommend reading "Window Systems Should Be Transparent",
by Rob Pike. It appears in the Controversy Section of the recently
published Computing Systems (vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 1988). Computing
Systems is the quarterly publication of the USENIX Association.
This paper addresses numerous issues concerning the user interface
provided by windowing systems, including some discussed in comp.cog-eng
lately. Having used mux (the windowing system for the Blit under Research
UNIX) for several years and now having to deal with other windowing systems,
I tend to agree with much of what Pike has to say.
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Largo, FL USA 34649-2826klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) (12/17/88)
In article <5149@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes: >I would recommend reading "Window Systems Should Be Transparent", >by Rob Pike. It appears in the Controversy Section of the recently >published Computing Systems (vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 1988). A similar, but perhaps more comprehensive, paper is "A Taxonomy of Window Manager User Interfaces" by Brad Myers, *IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications* magazine, September, 1988. Myers is well known in the user interface world, while Pike is famous for his Blit work, so the emphases of the 2 papers are slightly different. Both are good reading. Ken Lee Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept. -- uucp: uunet!daisy!klee arpanet: daisy!klee@uunet.uu.net "DC6 which is being used for [Contra weapons supply] runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into U.S." - Oliver North, August, 1985