ced@apollo.COM (Carl Davidson) (05/12/89)
From article <13584@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller): > No. Unfortunately, mushtool was written back before sunview in the > days when sun 2.0 was just surfacing and NFS was just about in BETA > tests at SRI :-) the suntools mode has changed very little since > then, but bugs have attempted to be fixed and enhancements have been > kept to a minimum. Now that I'm -reasonably- sure that no one is > running 2.0 anymore, porting it to sunview would be a good thing. > this would, of course, mean that "scrollbars" would be used in all > the windows! At any rate, this is not going to happen real soon now > because of other time-restraining committments. > I think I saw a question in this vein before, but never saw any replies so I'll try again . . . Has anyone out there ported the mushtool interface to X Window? Is anyone out there in the process of porting the mushtool interface to X Window? Is anyone out there planning to port the mushtool interface to X window in the near future? Has anyone out there scoped the tasks involved in porting the mushtool interface to X Window? I've been planning to begin such a port later this year but before I do I'd like to communicate with anyone who has performed, is in the process of performing, or anticipates performing such a port. I'd also like to hear suggestions from anyone who has ideas regarding how an Xmush interface should look. Specifically: 1. What do you like about the current Suntool interface that you wouldn't want to change? 2. What do you dislike about the current Suntool interface and how would you improve it? 3. What additional bells & whistles would you like to see in an Xmush interface? My purely personal opinion is that porting mushtool to X is a much better use of time than porting mushtool to Sunview, mainly because a wider community of users will be able to use the X interface than the Sunview interface. I guess this is about the place where I need to say that 1. The opinions expressed here are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Apollo Computer Inc., The Hewlett-Packard Company, or anyone other than myself. 2. I am planning on doing the X implementation on my own time and placing the result in the hands of the Mush user community by whatever means is appropriate, whether that be a patch to a Mush base version or (if Dan and Bart are agreeable) a merger a new version of Mush with #ifdef's for the X interface similar to way the current Suntool interface is distributed. 3. If somebody else is doing this already, I really don't need the work. Now that I've opened up this can of worms, I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you. Regards, Carl -- Carl Davidson "A strange game. Apollo Computer Inc. The only winning move is not to play. Chelmsford, MA 01824 How about a nice game of chess?" ced@apollo.com