Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, David Fraser wrote: > > > >>Other names: >> OpenWin[dows] (because it's open source replacement for windows gdi) >> XOpenWin[dows] >> >> > >OpenWindows is the X11 environment from SUN. Using this name might bring >some trademark problems. > >bye > ago > Thanks, had realized that (mentioned later in email)...rats thesaurus time: Window: light port sky lattice sun shine viewpoint outlet shutter gate hmmm...
Anyway I'm happy with XOpenWin. I prefer it to win2x because it sounds more professional. Any objections? Here's a stab at the project descriptions etc: 1. Full Name XOpenWin 2. Project Purpose and Summarizations XOpenWin is a project to utilize X Windows as an alternative user interface for Windows operating systems. It will use the the cygwin xfree86 project (particularly xlib) to display the equivalent of GDI calls for Windows applications. It may import or use code from the Wine project that does similar things on Linux; however this is essentially different to Wine as it is only converting the display, not emulating any other Windows functions. Programming language will be C/C++, OS platforms as many windows variants as possible. This has been discussed extensively on the cygwin-xfree86 mailing list and planning has already begun. 3. License GPL. 4. Project Public Description: XOpenWin is a project to utilize XWindows as an alternative user interface for Windows operating systems. It will allow any app (or the whole UI) to be displayed in an X server, on the user's screen (cygwin) or remotely. 'Say goodbye to the Windows GDI' 5. Unix name XOpenWin Any changes, post them quickly, otherwise I'll go ahead...
