Re: Craig's "Rainikkusu" site

[Shige Abe <sabe@example.com>]

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Dennis McMurchy wrote:

> 
>   Anyone else have thoughts on this and/or favourite window managers to
> recommend?  I really quite like the plain, but functional, nine-paned 
> fvwm that is standard issue with Slackware.  With some nice artwork in the
> root window, decent border colours (the Slackware defaults are horrid)
> and xdaliclock, what more could any Linuxer want?   
> 

I vote for AfterStep.

I think its absolutely the best looking WM out there.  Its modeled after
the elegant NextStep OS.  Though based on FVWM 1.24f, it has lots of added
features.
  
You really need at least X in 16 bit mode to appreciate it.  One of the
first things you'll notice, is that it uses lots of colours.  Though you
can shut off and reduce everything, on 16-bit displays, the NeXT style
title bars are rendered in 128 colours to produce a subtle gradient
effect.  You can use one colour like other WM, if you prefer.  Also,
tiling with XPM is also possible.  You are free to make it as tasteful or
tasteless as you wish.
  
There is a complete set of exellent looking icons that are heavily based
on NeXT.  A whole series of applets have been written to replace the ugly
FVWM ones.  These include NeXT-style calender/clock, MailBox,
ModemMonitor, CD Player, etc.
  
Also, AfterStep has a modified Tck/Tk that looks like NeXT.  Also, xaw
has the NeXT look.
  
There is work on making it functional beyond Fvwm as well.  Its likely
there will be at least a partial rewrite in Obective-C in order to make
use of code being developed by the GNUStep project.

Here are some web pages:

* http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~kojima/nextaw/index.html

  From Alfredo Kojima's page: neXtaw is a replacement library for libXaw
  or libXaw3d. It is just a modified version of libXaw3d with some new
  features. It tries to emulate the look and feel of N*XTSTEP. 
  
* http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~kojima/tkstep.html

  TkSTEP is a set of replacement files for the Tk library, that makes it's
  widgets look like NEXTSTEP's. It looks very good with the AfterStep
  window manager. 

* http://mango.sfasu.edu/~frank/afterstep/

  Official AfterStep page.  Has been down during the weekend, hopefully 
  it'll be back up in a few days.

  This page is a must visit since it contains links to the FTP site 
  (which is also temporary down).  Here you will find a wealth of
  screen shots.


* http://www.gnustep.org/
 
  Official GNUstep homepage.

* http://peanuts.leo.org/ns40/index-e.html

  Nextstep 4.0 screenshots.  A lot of recent AfterStep cosmetic 
  modifications have been based on these simulated screenshots.


There are a lot more personal pages featuring AfterStep.  There are also
several mailing lists for AfterStep too.  Hope these links give you an
idea why AfterStep is my WM.


	Shige Abe

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