Re: SEUL: Projects to look at/work with

[Micah Yoder <yoderm@geocities.com>]

> Browsing through the LDP project list, here are some of the projects I've found
> that we should try to coordinate with:

Hi, thanks for posting this list of links.  This is great!!!  :-)

> http://blank.pages.de/lip/
> Linux Interface Project:  Designing a free widget set for use with Linux,
> replacement for Motif, etc.  This one's in coding stages, so someone better
> contact them ASAP to find out what they have...

This will be nice...

> http://www.ecnet.net/users/gfetters/berlin/
> Berlin:  A replacement windowing system, built on top of GGI, that promises
> to be much better than X.

Ok, what do you guys think of this one???  I looked through the pages
and have strong mixed feelings.  I've never been a huge fan of X, and
would welcome something better.  But what would this do to Linux?  Now
we'd have to worry about whether apps run under X or Berlin!  It
wouldn't be "cool" to install both, especially in SEUL.  (For RedHat and
the others, it might be fine...but for SEUL I think we want to keep this
as consistent as possible.  We may have to choose one or ther other!)

Also I looked through their site and couldn't find any good answers on
how far along the project is.  They have an alpha version of the
registry (yuck....a potential disadvantage here also!) but I can't tell
if they're close to releasing an alpha of the whole thing.  In some
parts of the page it refers to the GUI as "writen" implying past tense,
but I didn't see any good evidence of something being about done.  Also
the last update to the page was in April.  Is it dead?

A lot of this stuff makes me want to argue that SEUL should *not* be
released this winter or sooner.  I think we should aim for a longer term
strategy, releasing SEUL after we code *all* necessary parts to make it
a good alternative to M$.  As an added bonus, most of these projects
should be completed by the middle of next year and could be included.

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