To: robin@sun.com, jfarrel@sun.com
Subject: Questions for the X11/NeWS SIG
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I told you I'd send some questions about X11/NeWS, for the SIG at
CHI'88. Here they are! 

- How does the NeWS selection service interact with that of X?
  - Cut & Paste between NeWS and X windows?

- What sort of access do NeWS processes have to X Properties?

- How is color handled?
  - Can NeWS processes manipulate the color map in the manner of X clients?

- Does journalling work over both X and NeWS window?

- Do you have direct access to Xlib from PostScript? 
  - What lower level parts of the X server are exposed to PostScript
    processes?

- Describe the class heirarchy that the will be supplied with X11/NeWS!
  - Tell all about class Canvas!

- How does the NeWS window manager interact with X windows?
  - Do you need to run a seperate X window manager, or can the NeWS server
    handle window managment for X and NeWS windows?
  - What are the advantages of having the window manager running in
    the NeWS server?
  - Can you run a normal X window manager, and have it manage NeWS
    windows as well as X windows?

- Can you emulate and prototype X extensions in PostScript?
  - How about making X input extensions that use NeWS Items to
    emulate different types of hardware, like knob and botton boxes,
    n-dimensional pointing devices, etc.

- What new PostScript extensions are there?
  - "send" as a nice fast primitive???!
  - dynamic loading of primitives?

- Multitasking
  - Will we ever have preemptive multitasking?
  - How about timeouts for badly behaved processes that don't pause?

- How complete is the PostScript implementation?
  - Font model?
  - charpath?
  - Halftoning?

- Describe the underlying graphics package that X11/NeWS is based on!!!
  - Can canvases be positioned above or to the left of their parent?
    (This does not work in NeWS 1.1!)

- What's all this stuff about Open Look?
  - What is the NDE toolkit?