Subject: GREAT 0.92 pre-announcement
From: Michaela Merz <[email-masked]>
Date: 31 Jul 1994 23:13:36 +0300
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

It's time for a new pre-announcement of the 

              Graphical Environment and Desktop (GREAT)

 Notice:

    We haven't received a single dollar of support. This is
    why we had to sell the distribution rights of the GREAT
    package. The new owner agrees to make free LINUX versions
    available. So - there will be no changes for LINUXers in
    the future and we are able to pre-announce GREAT 0.92 for

               * LINUX
               * Solaris >= 2.3
               * HP/UX

    The new version of GREAT will be released hopefully at 
    the end of September.

What is GREAT?

    GREAT is a graphical working environment for several
    unix(tm) operating systems and Linux. It is based on
    OSF Motif and needs an X11 environment. GREATs inbuild
    network support is  our view of a "Distributed Computing
    Environment" and enables workgroup computing on the fly.
    The GREAT tools are supporting drag'n drop as well as
    sound and colored icons.

The graphical GREAT modules:

    ! gfm      - The GREAT filemanager 
    ! ghelp    - Online multimedia hypertext helpsystem
    * gedit    - The GREAT editor
    ! gpanel   - GREAT application control
    ! cmdframe - The GREAT desktop
    * gconfig  - Style/Color/Background etc. customizer
    * gmail    - GREAT's drag'n drop mime mailsystem
    * gfind    - GREAT's graphical find and grep replacement

The commandline GREAT modules

    + vold     - A solaris like volumenmanager for cdroms/floppies
    ! gls      - ls - command with GREAT networksupport
    ! gcat     - cat - command with GREAT networksupport
    ! gcp      - cp - command with GREAT networksupport
     
    * new        ! changed       + Linux only

What is new?

    All modules are supporting multiple languages. We will provide 
    english and german. Everybody might add a new language or change
    the messages. Translation wasn't that easy because it is quite
    hard to translate all those nice error-messages from english into
    german.  Well, I keep it tuned to english :-) 

The new modules:

    gedit: This tool is not a wordprocessor. But is has some very
    nice inbuild features like drag'n drop text from or to it, a
    preview in the open-file menu etc. 

    gconfig: Our goal was to enable the definition of all GREAT
    colors on the fly. You want it "CoralReef" ? Just click on
    the GREAT palette entry and all colors of all GREAT tools
    will change it's colors immediately. Or move a slider to
    watch all the colors change in realtime. Gconfig provides
    a configuration interface to colors, mouse (i.e acceleration,
    threshold), windows (i.e. frame border width, focus policy),
    keyboard and sound. You may even choose a root-window bit-
    or pixmap. Most things will be changed in realtime, you do
    not have to restart GREAT.

    gmail: This mail tool makes living a lot easier. It supports
    the most well-know features of other mail-frontends and 
    also the multimedia mail extension (mime). It enables you
    to mail pictures, sounds, well, mostly everything with a
    simple drag'n drop operation.  Received mails and attachments
    may be drag'n dropped into directories or, for instant action,
    to the gflex utility.

    gfind: scans the directory structure for definable target.
    It may also "look into files" to find a specific string.
    After a successful scan, gfind will offer several choices
    like edit the found file(s) or open the filemanager on 
    a directories.

    vold: Vold is watching all your removable media devices.
    If you plug a diskette into the drive, vold tries to mount 
    it and opens the filemanager on the mounted directory. In case
    of cdrom drives, vold starts a filemanager on data-cds
    or a cdromplayer on music-cds. Everything is configurable.

 The GREAT networking security has completely changed. The 
 security hole should now be closed. We changed the look
 and feel of the GREAT tools and icons. A styleguide is
 provided with the ghelp facility. GREAT will not longer
 be available statically linked. So - if you want to use
 GREAT - you must have the OSF Motif runtime package.

 A first picture of GREAT is available on tsx11:
 /pub/linux/BETA/GREAT/great092.gif

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