[cap-talk] CapGUI (was OCap directory discussion) (was: Waterken Server (was: A paper on web-keys))

[John Carlson]

I like the OCap idea for directories.  I assume I could apply the same  
ideas to GUI controls, windows and displays.  Is there an OCap  
windowing system?  If we have a GUI, do we need a file system ( a  
potential source of ambient authority)?

Anyone for a fuzzy (ala fuzzy sets) OCap GUI?

I can see stuff like cd homedisplay; ls mailwindow; vi mailwindow/ 
captalk/CapGUI if you like a command line oriented version.

I guess a web browser is like an OCap windowing system.  Too bad about  
ambient authority on the net.

I really think that doing the GUI last is the wrong approach.  The GUI  
should be the basis for the system (ala smalltalk and croquet).  Maybe  
the macintosh was the worst thing to happen to GUIs, since it carried  
the idea of a file system with ambient authority.

If someone wants to talk about CapGUI, (maybe Jed with his CapDoc or  
CapDesk), I think that would be great.

Also aspects of sharing GUIs interest me.

And the event driven aspect of the GUI interests me.  What if I could  
share a window with you, but not give you the capability to invoke  
event listeners.

Is Joe-E limited to web browsing?

Say I'd like Jed to see this sentence, but no one else.  I'd like to  
see a PKI addressbook integrated with the email compose feature.  Jed  
would receive a special "capability" to read this line.


John