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Methodology of Window Management

Proceedings of an Alvey Workshop at Cosener’s House, Abingdon, UK, April 1985

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. F. Robert A. Hopgood

    1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Division, Science and Engineering Research Council, Didcot, UK

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  2. David A. Duce

    1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Division, Science and Engineering Research Council, Didcot, UK

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  3. Elizabeth V. C. Fielding

    1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Division, Science and Engineering Research Council, Didcot, UK

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  4. Ken Robinson

    1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Division, Science and Engineering Research Council, Didcot, UK

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  5. Antony S. Williams

    1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Division, Science and Engineering Research Council, Didcot, UK

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Part of the book series: Focus on Computer Graphics (FOCUS COMPUTER)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xvii-xvii
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    2. Introduction

      • F. Robert A. Hopgood, David A. Duce, Elizabeth V. C. Fielding, Ken Robinson, Antony S. Williams
      Pages 1-5

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Introducing Windows to Unix: User Expectations

      • Colin Prosser
      Pages 9-13

    3. A Comparison of Some Window Managers

      • Tony Williams
      Pages 15-33

    4. Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View

      • Warren Teitelman
      Pages 35-46

    5. SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System

      • James Gosling
      Pages 47-57

    6. Issues in Window Management Design and Implementation

      • Brad Myers
      Pages 59-71

    7. A Modular Window System for Unix

      • Dominic Sweetman
      Pages 73-79

    8. Standards Activities

      • John Butler
      Pages 81-86

    9. A Graphics Standards View of Screen Management

      • Bob Hopgood
      Pages 87-95

    10. Windows, Viewports and Structured Display Files

      • Colin Prosser
      Pages 97-100

    11. Partitioning of Function in Window Systems

      • James Gosling
      Pages 101-106

    12. System Aspects of Low-Cost Bitmapped Displays

      • David Rosenthal, James Gosling
      Pages 107-113

    13. A Window Manager for Bitmapped Displays and Unix

      • James Gosling, David Rosenthal
      Pages 115-128

    14. Issues

      • F. Robert A. Hopgood, David A. Duce, Elizabeth V. C. Fielding, Ken Robinson, Antony S. Williams
      Pages 129-138

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Application Program Interface Working Group Discussion

      • F. Robert A. Hopgood, David A. Duce, Elizabeth V. C. Fielding, Ken Robinson, Antony S. Williams
      Pages 141-144

    3. Application Program Interface Working Group Final Report

      • F. Robert A. Hopgood, David A. Duce, Elizabeth V. C. Fielding, Ken Robinson, Antony S. Williams
      Pages 145-173
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About this book

This volume is a record of the Workshop on Window Management held at the Ruth­ erford Appleton Laboratory's Cosener's House between 29 April and 1 May 1985. The main impetus for the Workshop came from the Alvey Programme's Man­ Machine Interface Director who was concerned at the lack of a formal definition of window management and the lack of focus for research activities in this area. Win­ dow Management per se is not the complete problem in understanding interaction. However, the appearance of bitmap displays from a variety of vendors enabling an operator to work simultaneously with a number of applications on a single display has focussed attention on what the overall architecture for such a system should be and also on what the interfaces to both the application and operator should be. The format of the Workshop was to spend the first day with presentations from a number of invited speakers. The aim was to get the participants aware of the current state of the art and to highlight the main outstanding issues. The second day consisted of the Workshop participants splitting into three groups and discussing specific issues in depth. Plenary sessions helped to keep the individual groups work­ ing on similar lines. The third day concentrated on the individual groups presenting their results and interacting with the other groups to identify main areas of con­ sensus and also a framework for future work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Informatics Division, Science and Engineering Research Council, Didcot, UK

    F. Robert A. Hopgood, David A. Duce, Elizabeth V. C. Fielding, Ken Robinson, Antony S. Williams

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