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As part of the introduction, here is a list of Uis that everyone should be familiar with for more productive discourse. Just list here, and we'll cause comment files for them to appear, as well as glossary enteries if desired.:

(alphabetical order was achieved briefly and then lost again)

Be BeOS (4.x-5.x): BeOSUi

Apple MacOS (0-6, 7.x, 8.x): MacOSUi

Apple OS X Aqua: AquaUI

Apple (dead project) Copland: CoplandUI

Apple (et al)(dead project) OpenDoc / CyberDog : CyberDogUI

Apple MacOS X Server (nee Rhapsody) (dead project): RhapsodyUi

Apple Next/Open Step (?) (prev NeXT) GnuStepUi

Atari ST (Gem/TOS)

GNOME (1.x): GnomeUi, (2.x): HelixUI

MS Windows (3.x) (progman, explorer, 2k) (4.x): MSWinUi

MS Wince : WinceUI

MS Bob : BobUI

IBM OS/2 (2-4.x) (also MS) (including WPS): Os2WPSUi (and StarDock extensions .. )

AmigaDOS WorkBench (27?): AmigaUi

DOS (MS & IBM 1-7) (Caldera 7.x) DosUi

Unix shell (bash 2.x) ShellUi

XWindow (fvwm twm afterstep wm enlightenment kde cde motif, etc) XWindowUi

Lucent Inferno (beta-3-x) InfernoUi

Apple/TI etc (a BASIC prompt from rom) InterpreterUi (my pref is Python :)

Packard Bell Navigator (OEM?) PBNavUi

PalmOS : PalmUI

RCA DSS (various) (rom) DssUi

WebTV (?) WebTvUi

Sun JavaOS HotJavaViewsUi

Back to UserInterfaceGroup

Wow I feel like a newbie now. :) I've only got experience on Windows 3.11, Win95, WinNT4, SGI WindowMagic (X). I've used OS/2 and Mac a little, but not really enough to critique their merits. The Mac desktop reminded me slightly of the SGI desktop. I've also messed with the WebTV stuff, but only for a few minutes.... just seemed like a decked out web browser IMHO.

Are we going to compile a page of each GUI's primary widgets/features, so we can compare and decide what features are the best?

-- MasonZhwiti

I suppose I can do that. I'll try and have it finished up in a week or so, may be a little more. Any help appreciated!

I will try to do the SGI WindowMagic... though I'll only have access to it until this Monday. I suppose I could do NT4 also, but is there a need? I think most everyone is familiar with the NT4/win95 gui right?

-- MasonZhwiti

Take as many as you want, and I'll fill in what of the rest I can..Might want to make an entry above and page for SGI, as it is a particularly weird X hack... It seems likely that we'll end up defining things in terms of '95 sometimes, out of familiarity or contempt, but I can't at the moment think of a way to comparitively describe it. They stole things from almost every UI in existence :)



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