FORMS for X?

[slevy]

I'm curious whether anyone has considered porting FORMS as an X toolkit --
not in the sense of GL/X, but as a toolkit depending only on X, i.e.
supporting user interfaces for possibly-non-SGI X-based systems.  The issues I
imagine would need to be resolved are related to events (X events are richer
than GL's, but correspond tolerably well I think), color handling
(maybe an emulation library to choose a decent real color or dither-pattern,
given a requested color and whatever the X server offers, would do) and fonts
(here I'm unsure of a good way to go, but there may be hope if only a modest
set of fonts is promised as in FORMS 2.0).  With such an environment X
might be almost usable.  Anyone thought about this?

   Stuart Levy, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
   slevy at geom.umn.edu