Overview

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.

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Author:   F. Robert A. Hopgood ,  David A. Duce ,  Elizabeth V.C. Fielding ,  Ken Robinson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.474kg
ISBN:  

9783642709210

ISBN 10:   3642709214
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   20 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I.- 1 Introduction.- II.- 2 Introducing Windows to Unix: User Expectations.- 3 A Comparison of Some Window Managers.- 4 Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View.- 5 SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System.- 6 Issues in Window Management Design and Implementation.- 7 A Modular Window System for Unix.- 8 Standards Activities.- 9 A Graphics Standards View of Screen Management.- 10 Windows, Viewports and Structured Display Files.- 11 Partitioning of Function in Window Systems.- 12 System Aspects of Low-Cost Bitmapped Displays.- 13 A Window Manager for Bitmapped Displays and Unix.- 14 Issues.- III.- 15 Application Program Interface Working Group Discussions.- 16 Application Program Interface Working Group Final Report.- 17 User Interface Working Group Discussions.- 18 User Interface Working Group Final Report.- 19 Architecture Working Group Discussions.- 20 Architecture Working Group Final Report.- 21 Application Program Interface Task Group.- 22 Structures Task Group.- IV.- 23 Future Work.- 24 Bibliography.- 25 Acronyms and Glossary.

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