On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Cristian Tibirna wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Waldo Bastian wrote: > > > Robert Current wrote: > > > > > > Is there a mailing list to discuss the founding of a GUI standardization > > > effort!? > > > > > > I realize it doesn't belong on this mailing list.... And, I also know > > > some others would like to start talking too! > > > > It would be nice to have a private mailinglist for this indeed. Then we > > can try to get a select number of people of the various projects on it > > so that we have a common communication channel. Hopefully we can then > > work in a constructive way towards some common goals. > > > > As a name for the list I would like to propose "Unix Desktop > > Compatibility". > > That seems to be general enough not to exclude things/people/projects > > on beforehand. > > > > Hi > > I like the proposal. > > While I can see very well towards what the _discussions_ will be driven, I > still have problems imagining what _real work_ would look like. But I'm > quite sure that things will emerge. > > Could the ICCCM protocol proposal be considered as a start point? It > doesn't only deal with window manager mechanisms but also with simple > session management in X and other such stuff.
I see no problems with ICCCM being a part of a standard at this point but I think that the first step towords a standard would be to define interfaces between the applications and window managers/panels/mime rpositorys/and so on. This means that we have to define the "core components " in a desktop environment and their interfaces. When the interfaces are identified the next step is to decide what kind of protocol to use (ICCCM/Corba/....). > ICCCM translated to html:http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ > //Mats Loman
