[Info-vax] OpenVMS graphics - once more

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <c27b5fd2-da4b-4273-9301-8aea98e9a9c1 at googlegroups.com>, IanD
<iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes: 

> Great for pretty graphs displaying the status of things in a data centre bu=
> t horrible for getting real work done. Endless clicking down menu structure=
> s to find what you wanted often to discover the option you needed was not a=
> vailable via the windowing system or in combinations requiring multiple pas=
> ses to achieve the desired result. Lag lag lag was what I remember most abo=
> ut decwindows too

I rarely use the "DECwindows applications", at least not from the menu.  
There is an interface to MAIL and EVE.  I don't use either.

Occasionally, some website I need to access doesn't work properly in any 
browser available on VMS.  So, I have to fire up a browser on another 
system, and transfer files I upload and download back and forth.  This 
is a real pain.  

These days, a lot of stuff is done via a browser.  The current 
DECwindows is fine in terms of DECterms and using it as a display and so 
on.  What it needs is a modern web browser.  There would then be no need 
to have to rely on some auxiliary system.  (Some people will say that 
they have one anyway, because they do stuff there which will never be 
done on VMS (and even I don't want to see it on VMS), whereas in my case 
it is essentially only for things where the browsers on VMS don't work.  
But even if one regularly uses another system, if I am uploading or 
downloading files from or to VMS, why would I want to go through some 
other system?)  This could be used both for internet access and for 
accessing local web pages in any sort of gui.