Have you heard of Morphic?

[Jerry Fass <fass pitnet net>]

Dear wonderful GNOME Team:

Have you heard of Squeak, the open source, research,
Smalltalk-80/Apple-Smalltalk direct descendant, by the original Xerox
PARC, Alan Kay team, with Dan Ingalls, now at Disney?

They have added a new graphics system to Squeak, called Morphic, from
Sun Lab's Self. It looks like it may be important. Morphic may have
useful ideas for GNOME. Maybe you should examine it. Morphic is supposed
to make graphics far simpler to program, and eliminates many sources of
bugs. Since it is open source, it can be added to GNOME at little
monetary cost (labor), and maybe no licensing.

Morphic is a direct-manipulation User Interface (UI) construction kit
based on display trees. It is an alternative to Model View Controller
(MVC). It will likely replace and obsolete MVC in Squeak, as Dan Ingalls
says in the Squeak document:
PlaceInTheUniverse:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.158

Squeak author John Maloney originally developed Morphic with Randy Smith
as part of the Self project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Some Morphic links:

Squeak Homepage:
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/headed.html

Georgia Tech WikiWiki Morphic pages:

Morphic introduction page 1:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.336
Morphic introduction page 2:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.30
Short Morphic tutorial:
http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/cs2390.227
Getting Started with Morphic:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/startingmorphic.html
Janak on Morphic UI:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/morphicui.html
One of Morphic's inventors, John Maloney page:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.385

Sun Labs Morphic pages:
http://self.sunlabs.com
Mirror:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/oocsb/self

Self tutorial: Prototype-Based Application Construction Using SELF 4.0:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/oocsb/self/release/Self-4.0/Tutorial/index.html

Self tutorial Heading: Morphic: The SELF user interface framework:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/oocsb/self/release/Self-4.0/Tutorial/Morphic/Morphic/Morphic.html

I hope this helps you.
Good luck. Keep up the fine work.
Thanks for everything you have done.
Bye.