Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!godzilla.ele.toronto.edu!moraes From: moraes@godzilla.ele.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Subject: Re: Traffic on the X list Message-ID: <8807141707.AA10118@godzilla.ele.toronto.edu> Organization: EECG, University of Toronto References: <8807061628.AA22039@quartz.BBN.COM> <3678@pdn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 11:47:43 EDT In article <3678@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes: >In article <8807061628.AA22039@quartz.BBN.COM>, dm@DIAMOND.BBN.COM ("Dave Mankins") writes: > Yes, but a weed can also grow out of control. Withness all the toolkits >out there. There needs to be some consensus on A toolkit in order to make >applications more portable. With X10, people grumbled that there weren't any standard toolkits. With X11, there are too many ... :-) There aren't too many toolkits for X - the Xt intrinsics seem to have been accepted as a standard, it seems. I like it - it offers powerful primitives. You get the Athena widgets and the HP widgets layered on top on that - use one or both sets. According to the Open Look press releases, AT&T is going to layer it on top of Xt as well. (NeWS too). Majority of the X applications seem to use Xt with Xaw. The Andrew Toolkit is pretty much a system in its own right - more like an environment. CLUE is for Lisp, InterViews is for C++. I believe HP ported Xray to X11 to provide an upgrade path for X10 Xray users. They encourage use of the HP widgets.