Re: New Menus for Windows: Interface Analysis (II)

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, John R Sheets wrote:

> This looks like really good stuff!  I like the detachable,
> pinnable (i.e. persistent) menus, especially the fact that you
> can pin up submenus without messing with their parent menus.
> 
> I'm very surprised that anyone was able to wring out this much
> functionality and **integration** with Win3.1.  Tying into the
> menu clicks and titlebar clicks...multiple Win3.1 desktops...very
> impressive job.
> 
> We should definitely start tearing this apart and extracting
> ideas for the style guide.  Smashing detective work, Ben!  (c;

	I contacted the author of New Menus for Windows.  He's written
back.  It seems that he is still trying to program UNIX interfaces into
Windows.  (Only now he's using Linux desktops)  We might be able to get
him interested in this project...  Here's his message:

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The project is frozen since 1 1/2 years. If you are interested to have a
look at the alpha/beta-version of New Menus Window Manager 2.0 please
refer to ftp://ftp.isp.uni-kassel.de/nmfw/beta which has implemented a lot
of new things. I'm thinking about to make it to freeware. But I'm not
sure, if I will put significant work to it.

BTW: A few month ago I tried to port KDE to cygnus portable layer for
NT/95 just for fun. Finally I wasn't able to finish this, because I had to
make significant changes to qt. Because the license problems I stopped
this.

If I have a little bit time, I will have a look at gnome.

Greetings,
Roger Rene Kommer (kommer@artefaktur.com)

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						-Ben

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