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GUI proposals

Notes about GUI implementation and design issues.

Note that some pages below describe issues relating to specific implementations of, and default behaviours of, desktop environments that are not very relevant as that's intentionally beyond the control of Cy/VOS.

For pages that specifically relate to the development of individual GUIs, see User Window Environment ideas and development below. Some such pages may not yet be relocated to this section.

Technology

• LayerGUI
• Universal Interface
• Interface PostScript

Toolkits

No GUI-only toolkits presently defined. Please see HCI toolkits for generic toolkits relating to graphical interaction.

Human Interface

User Feedback

• Modeless alerts
• Notification
• Status and utility widgets

Other

• Fitt's law -- a couple of interesting example cases
• LayerGUI from Telcontar's perspective
• Global context menus
• Dockable controllers

• Other notes

GUI Implementation

Visual issues

• Modal dialog handling
• GUI services
• GUI services IPC considerations
• Window creation
• Skin support
• Container windows
• Screen regions
• Concurrent virtual desktops
• Icon composition
• Extreme window sizing
• Title bar widgets
• Menus

Non-visual issues

• Scripting support
• File type handling

Other notes

• Programmers' intent
• Other notes
• Hints and tips

User Window Environment ideas and examples

Notes

• Dialog navigation

Examples

• www.kristannaloken.net - a very curious window manager implementation
• (Telcontar at) Wetpaint - an AJAX GUI that is virtually an example of Cy/VOS in action
• RISC OS - Highly innovative and unusual graphical operating system
• EIKON - The standard GUI of Psion's EPOC operating system