Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sde!hpfcdc!hpfclp!diamant From: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: The Future of Widgets and UI packages on X Message-ID: <9740060@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Date: 17 Sep 88 22:35:36 GMT References: <472@pan.UUCP> Organization: HP SDE, Fort Collins, CO Lines: 17 > HP has one and a half. Several others were discussed > during the conference. With every one, the story was essentially the same; > you can license it directly from the developer. [...] It sure would be a > lot nicer if they came on the X distribution tape. It makes me wonder > if the first of these major developers who has the courage and foresight > to put their stuff on the X tape will win by default. I'm not sure what you mean that HP has one and a half. Anyway, the HP widgets (as well as the Sony widgets) are currently available on expo.lcs.mit.edu for anonymous ftp and both will be on the R3 tape (available "Octoberish" apparently). John Diamant Software Engineering Systems Hewlett-Packard Co. ARPA Internet: diamant@hpfclp.sde.hp.com Fort Collins, CO UUCP: {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant