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List:       openbsd-sparc
Subject:    OS Project
From:       "J. Todd Slack" <mailinglists () jasonandannette ! us>
Date:       2008-08-16 3:10:52
Message-ID: 5D7F8DFF-92B4-4CFE-88D4-C839C6E4C93C () jasonandannette ! us
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HI All,

I have been doing research on OS Development and GUI Toolkits and have  
taken a variety of course work on these topics. I am currently porting  
TCL/TK to Cocoa (OS X).

I have a strong interest in writing a session manager (I started  
writing on in Qt (Trolltech) a few years ago). I wrote a small GUI  
Toolkit a few years ago. I really like the BumpTop prototype that I  
saw a few years ago.

I am wondering what the best advice is. I have time and money to live  
on, so I can afford to do it. Really shouldn't a session manager be OS  
independent? Gnome and KDE are good examples. Parts of each have  
merit, parts dont. XFCE seems ok too. Aqua is obviously very platform  
dependent.

I am interested in how one might tie into a kernel if the OS is  
different, etc.

I would like advice, things to consider, must haves, etc.

-Jason

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