On Sat, 26 Jun 1993 20:23:43 GMT, imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) said:

  WL> OI and a user interface builder ObjectBuilder are available at no cost
  WL> for Linux.  OI has been developed over the past five years and is
  WL> quite a bit more robust than most other toolkits.

I agree. I just received a free copy of it; it seems comparable to
Interviews but more mature and better documented (which is one of the
major problems with Interviews, and that already for years!). A
problem is that there is no shared library at the moment, and that
it is huge. 8MB is really too little to develop in. And if you want to
make your application available to other platforms you need to buy the
other ports of OI, which is too expensive if you want to make free software.

  WL> Speaking of window managers, is there interest in swm for Linux?  Swm
  WL> is a window manager that emulates both OLWM and MWM and invented the
  WL> virtual desktop.  I've ported it to Linux and will see what I can do
  WL> about releasing it via ftp as well as a shared libOI.  However, to
  WL> make this happen, I need to be able to demonstrate to management that
  WL> the Linux community is interested and that it would be easier to put
  WL> it up for FTP than to keep sending out disks.

That would be very nice. Swm, and especially a shared libOI.
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