Re: 100% java GUI: Is this useful to anyone?

[Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>]

ashe@boulder.qms.com (Steven Ashe) writes:

> In some spare time, I put together a Windowing Toolkit in 100% java --
> it talks X11-protocol over TCP to an Xserver (no awt; no native code).

It's a cool idea, but it's already been done.
Check out http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eugene/XTC/

> Making this public is a lot of work, which I'd do, *if* there's interest.
> Some questions that come to mind are:
> 1) it would need a license.  I'd like it to be 'non-commericial use only'.

This automatically makes it non-interesting to most people on this list.
(Note XTC is public-domain.)  One problem is that "non-commercial use
only" is too vague;  people can't use it except for personal hobby use;
they can't even use for anything they want to contribute to a Linux
distribution, because people sell CDROMs of those.  Check out the
"Open Source Definition."

It also seems like your code is *not* compatible with AWT.
(This is also a problem/feature of XTC.)  Thus it will not help
with the goal of making a free AWT implementation for libgcj.
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