Re: bigger, sexier, more phly debian...
Unfortunatly Java is not GPL'd. For that matter I don't think that native
graphics services are actually provided by Java, it just calls the existing
local windowing system, but I'm probably wrong.
To bad MGR isn't a bigger deal.
At 08:41 AM 4/16/96 +0200, you wrote:
>bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) wrote on 15.04.96 in
<[🔎] m0u8t9H-00063bC@mongo.pixar.com>:
>
>> PostScript at all - they let a guy at NeXT design it for them. Of course
>> Java is the successor to NeWS - few people seem to realize that yet.
>
>I'm not familiar with NeWS, though I heard people groaning about it.
>
>I've been thinking for years that there's need for a replacement for X
>that keeps the networking features, adds local processing in the display
>server (network performance, especially on slow links, is a real problem
>with X), and adds a much larger set of what X people call widgets or
>stuff, that is, a library for all the commonly needed user interface
>elements (so it's easier to get some sort of common look to programs,
>which is something X is very bad on).
>
>During the last months, I've finally seen a way to get there without
>ending in a very small niche.
>
>Do it with Java. Everybody and his dog is already using it, and it already
>does execution of programs received via network, and it's already ported
>to every toaster around.
>
>Unfortunately, I currently don't have the time to do it :-(
>
>MfG Kai
>
>
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