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re: ZBrowser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Wed Aug 26 16:28:14 1992
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:26:15 -0400
From: eichin@Athena.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
To: momberg@tunix.ptu.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de
Cc: zephyr@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Martin Momberg's message of Wed, 26 Aug 92 23:15:23 +0200 <9208262115.AA12300@tunix.ptu.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de>
ZBrowser only compiled with a very early release of X11 (I don't believe
it worked past X11R2) and relies on features that are probably
violations of the ICCCM (such as getting structure notifications of
new windows and querying them for a description Property.)
The functionality could be built in to zwgc, or support for
the necessary communication could be added to zwgc to allow a seperate
client. However, you'd want to start with the latest zwgc, and you'd
want to throw away the old zbrowser code altogether. Trust me on this
-- I wrote that code, and I wouldn't look at it again, it would be a
waste of time as a starting point.
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
MIT Student Information Processing Board
Former Zephyr Team member
ps. I didn't cc "sysmoeller" or "syseder" since the reply addresses
incorrectly referred to a "tunix" with no domain.
