X Athena Widgets

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X Athena Widgets
Repository
TypeWidget toolkit
The xman program, written using Xaw
X Window System graphics stack

X Athena Widgets or Xaw is a

Qt, but it is still maintained (by the X.Org Foundation) and is available as part of most X Window System installations. The library, like other core parts of X, is licensed under the MIT License
.

In a talk for USENIX, X pioneer Jim Gettys remarked that although Athena widgets were "ugly", they were often used in the period of X history that he describes as the "GUI wars", as a safe alternative to the competing Motif and Open Look toolkits.[2]

References

  1. ^ Chris D. Peterson. "Athena Widget Set — C Language Interface" (PDF).
  2. ^ Jim Gettys (2000). Lessons Learned about Open Source. Proc. USENIX.

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