------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OD-90228 SUGGESTION "PRIDE"-IF
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JUL 14, 1997 RELEASE 1.2.0 PAGE 1
****************************************************************
* MI-10040 X WINDOWS LIKE GUI *
****************************************************************
REQUIRED DATE- OPEN USER PRIORITY WEIGHT- 59 RANKING- 0038
DATE RECEIVED- MAY 05, 1997 REQUEST STANDING - REVIEW AS OF- JUL 14, 1997
TYPE- NEW DEVELOP
DESCRIPTION-
In today's network centric world (IBM definition) it is
terrible you need a monitor attached to the physical
computer to see its output. Instead, it would be much
better to have the possibility to read the output on a
remote terminal, like an X terminal. This needs a review
of the OS/2 GUI low level interface, but should be possible
in such a way the current programs don't even know this.
OS/2 layer GUI is powerful enough to support this feature.
ATTRIBUTES:
HIGH Value
Desired NEXT full release
BENEFIT$
I am working inside HEP community and I have found out people
look for an alternative to Unix. WinNT is for now thought
as the best alternative, but the impossibility to have a remote
display limits its use. The availability of such an
improvement in OS/2 would make it the better solution for
large environments, where a PC is used also as a server, not
only as a client.
Submitted by:
Sfiligoi Igor
Udine, Italy
Universita' degli studi di Udine
sfiligoi@udalf2.fisica.uniud.it
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT:
July 11, 1997
IBM already has a TCP/IP stack included with OS/2 Warp 3 Connect
or OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin, and an X-Windows option is available. A
TCP/IP stack for existing Warp 3 users should be made available
FREE OF CHARGE, with the X-Windows set of libraries being also
FREE OF CHARGE for all users. X-Windows support should ship
with EVERY copy of Warp, as an option on the CD installation
(there is space). Users should have the option of installing
it, for a University like us, the support for integral TCP/IP
and X-Windows would be a very strong factor for using OS/2 more
widely. This is not just a request for freebies, OS/2 Warp was
strongly considered at our university, but rejected due to the
additional cost of the TCP/IP stack which became effectively
free when OS/2 Warp Connect was released. The X-Windows support
is a factor to change that now.
Richard Turner
UNIX Systems Manager
University of Teesside
Computing & Mathematics
Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, UK TS1 3BA
R.J.Turner@tees.ac.uk
* * * END OF OUTPUT * * *
PLEASE SEND US YOUR COMMENTS! on the priority rankings or any of
the suggestions included; send e-mail to the Editor at: TimB1557@aol.com