RE: Thats all folks!

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Joe Lee
>
> But for many if not most of the actual users of the AS400
> what they need are a small set of applications which they can open from
> their windows/x-windows desktop.

Okay.  An icon to a browser with a hardcoded URL.  Remove all the chrome,
and it looks like an application.


> One of the advantages to having an
> x-client created for each program is that a user could open each
> application instead of opening a client access session and then
> navigating to the application they need.

Have one browser open for each application.


> Heck we don't want/allow most
> of our users access to the command line.

So I fail to see what X-windows buys you that HTML doesn't.

Personally, if you were to go to a non-HTML interface, I'd prefer some thing
a bit more generic - an SGML-based language that would then be translated on
the client to something graphical.  This would be the OBW, or Open Business
Widget, specification.  All programs would adhere to this specification, and
then you could truly plug in whatever interface you wanted.

To me, substituting X-Windows for 5250 is simply treading water.

Joe