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Window Management

Overview

Preface

Acknowledgements

Participants

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Unix

3 Comparison

4 Ten Years

5 SunDew

6 Issues

7 Modular

8 Standards

9 Standards View

10 Structure

11 Partitioning

12 Low-Cost

13 Gosling

14 Issues

15 API WG

16 API WG

17 UI WG

18 UI WG

19 Arch WG

20 Arch WG

21 API Task Group

22 Structure Task Group

23 Future

24 Bibliography

25 Acronyms

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Table of Contents

  * Preface
  * Acknowledgements
  * List of Participants
  * Part I
  * 1. Introduction
      + 1.1 BACKGROUND
      + 1.2 GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP
      + 1.3 ORGANIZATION
      + 1.4 STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP
      + 1.5 DEMONSTRATIONS
      + 1.6 TERMINOLOGY
  * Part II
  * 2. Introducing Windows to Unix: User Expectations
      + 2.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 2.2 USER EXPECTATIONS
      + 2.3 DISCUSSION
  * 3. A Comparison of Some Window Managers
      + 3.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 3.2 A MODEL OF WINDOW MANAGEMENT
      + 3.3 COMPARISON OF WINDOW MANAGERS
      + 3.4 ARCHITECTURE, ADDRESS SPACES AND COMMUNICATIONS
      + 3.5 OTHER SYSTEMS
      + 3.6 SUMMARY
      + 3.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
      + 3.8 DISCUSSION
  * 4. Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View
      + 4.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 4.2 SMALLTALK
      + 4.3 DLISP
      + 4.4 INTERLISP-D
      + 4.5 TAJO (MESA DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT)
      + 4.6 THE DOCS SYSTEM (CEDAR)
      + 4.7 VIEWERS (CEDAR)
      + 4.8 SUNWINDOWS
      + 4.9 SUNDEW
      + 4.10 DISCUSSION
  * 5. SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System
      + 5.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 5.2 GOALS
      + 5.3 DESIGN SKETCH
      + 5.4 DISCUSSION
  * 6. Issues in Window Management Design and Implementation
      + 6.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 6.2 USER INTERFACE
      + 6.3 INPUT
      + 6.4 IMPLEMENTATION
      + 6.5 SUMMARY
      + 6.6 DISCUSSION
  * 7. A Modular Window System for Unix
      + 7.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 7.2 ARCHITECTURE
      + 7.3 FUTURE REQUIREMENTS
      + 7.4 DISCUSSION
  * 8. Standards Activities
      + 8.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 8.2 MODELS
      + 8.3 UNRESOLVED ISSUES
  * 9. A Graphics Standards View of Screen Management
      + 9.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 9.2 VOCABULARY
      + 9.3 INTERFACE TO GKS
      + 9.4 SUBDIVISION OF FRAMES
      + 9.5 ASPECT RATIO AND POSITIONING WITHIN A FRAME
      + 9.6 OUTPUT CONTROL
      + 9.7 INPUT
      + 9.8 ICONS
      + 9.9 SUMMARY
  * 10. Windows, Viewports and Structured Display Files
      + 10.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 10.2 WINDOWS AND VIEWPORTS
      + 10.3 BITMAPS AND STRUCTURED DISPLAY FILES
  * 11. Partitioning of Function in Window Systems
      + 11.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 11.2 WHO PAINTS THE BITS?
      + 11.3 CONCLUSIONS
  * 12. System Aspects of Low-Cost Bitmapped Displays
      + 12.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 12.2 MODELS
      + 12.3 CHECKLIST
      + 12.4 DISCUSSION
      + 12.5 CONCLUSION
      + 12.6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  * 13. A Window Manager for Bitmapped Displays and Unix
      + 13.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 13.2 CLIENT'S VIEW
      + 13.3 IMPLEMENTATION
      + 13.4 APPLICATIONS
      + 13.5 ASSESSMENT
      + 13.6 FUTURE WORK
      + 13.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  * 14. Issues
      + 14.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 14.2 APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE
      + 14.3 USER INTERFACE
      + 14.4 ARCHITECTURE
      + 14.5 THE ISSUES LIST
  * Part III
  * 15. Application Program Interface Working group Discussions
      + 15.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 15.2 PROPERTIES OF A WINDOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
      + 15.3 ISSUES
  * 16. Application Program Interface Working Group Final Report
      + 16.1 DEFINITIONS
      + 16.2 PROPERTIES OF A WINDOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
      + 16.3 CONTROLLING THE WINDOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
      + 16.4 MODELS OF THE APPLICATION - WINDOW MANAGER INTERFACE
      + 16.5 ISSUES
      + 16.6 PORTABILITY
      + 16.7 FUTURE WORK
  * 17. User Interface Working Group Discussions
      + 17.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
      + 17.2 INTERFACE TECHNIQUES
      + 17.3 USER INTERFACE GUIDELINES
      + 17.4 THE USER'S CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF A WINDOW MANAGER
      + 17.5 APPLICATIONS DOMAIN AND WINDOW MANAGER DESIGN
      + 17.6 USER TYPES AND WINDOW MANAGER DESIGN
      + 17.7 USER INTERFACE EVALUATION
      + 17.8 ISSUES
      + 17.9 FUTURE WORK
  * 18. User Interface Working Group Final Report
      + 18.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 18.2 INTERFACE TECHNIQUES AND EXEMPLARS
      + 18.3 USER INTERFACE GUIDELINES
      + 18.4 THE USER'S CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF A WINDOW MANAGER
      + 18.5 APPLICATIONS DOMAIN AND WINDOW MANAGER DESIGN
      + 18.6 USER TYPES AND WINDOW MANAGER DESIGN
      + 18.7 USER INTERFACE EVALUATION
      + 18.8 SPECIFIC ISSUES
  * 19. Architecture Working group Discussion
      + 19.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 19.2 DISCUSSION
  * 20. Architecture Working group Final Report
      + 20.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 20.2 NOMENCLATURE
      + 20.3 ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
      + 20.4 INPUT AND LOCUS OF CONTROL
      + 20.5 WINDOW REDRAW
      + 20.6 HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEM PREREQUISITES
  * 21. Application Program Interface Task Group
      + 21.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 21.2 GROUP DISCUSSION
      + 21.3 FINAL REPORT
      + 21.4 DISCUSSION
  * 22. Structure Task Group
      + 22.1 REPORT
      + 22.2 DISCUSSION
  * Part IV
  * 23. Future Work
      + 23.1 INTRODUCTION
      + 23.2 EXPERIENCE
      + 23.3 APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE
      + 23.4 PORTABILITY
      + 23.5 ARCHITECTURE
      + 23.6 USER INTERFACE
      + 23.7 INPUT
      + 23.8 STANDARDS
      + 23.9 CUT AND PASTE
      + 23.10 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
      + 23.11 CONCLUSION
  * 24. Bibliography
  * 25. Acronyms and Glossary