Re: FreeAES

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
 >
 >> I guess it's pretty correct, if I state that many people on this list 
 >> dream of an X clone that happens to be an AES able to run GEM apps,
 >> especially if it becomes portable for Linux 68k, don't you think?

Btw, what I meant is, an AES that is network-loadable and possibly
replaces the window shape and gadgets with something (user-definable)
that is visually closer to X (or whatever prefered GUI), but still 
acting as a GEM window library covering all standard AES 4 functions.

Assuming sources to FreeAES are public, however, someone could rewrite
the routines handling Iconify to provide "hide on taskbar" (a la win95),
when the iconify gadget is clicked, if they desire.

Existing applications would still call the standard AES 4 Iconify
library, but the personalized AES would produce "hide" instead of
"minimize window", using the exact same GEM call.

This sort of nicies become possible, with a "sources-included"
freeware AES.  User-customizable is VERY desirable. ;-)

 >I second that. It would be the ideal addition to MiNT: We already have a
 >hybrid between TOS and BSD, so completing it witha hybrid between X and
 >GEM would make the dream complete. 

Yes, that's exactly my point.


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