WHY Objectives

To briefly outline the chief objectives of WHY:

• Provide a consistent (policy), unified user interface to the user
• Put the event handling and object management code into the display server
• Make the GUI look & feel independent of function so that multiple themes can be used
• Provide an easy to use API for programmers to create applications
• Make an extensible, modular display server which conforms to a specific modular development API
• Mimic the Network transparency of X, yet provide for an enhanced, accelerated localhost communication medium (shared memory for example)
• Achieve full interactivity with an application over a 28.8Kbps modem
• Provide backwards compatibility with X
• Build a display server that is capable of multimedia needs, this includes having native sound support and high level graphics primitives.

WHY is a work in progress, so these objectives may be added to and refined as time goes on. At no time should any of these objectives be tossed away, so you can be fairly sure in knowing that we plan on achieving these results.