Editing Visual User Environment

{{Short description|Desktop interface for Unix workstations}}
{{distinguish|VUE (Visual Understanding Environment)}}
{{Other uses|Vue (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Visual User Environment
| logo =
| screenshot = HP-UX-9-VUE.png
| caption = VUE on [[HP-UX]] 9.10
| developer = [[Hewlett-Packard]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1992|03}}
| latest_release_version = 
| latest_release_date = 
| operating_system = [[Domain/OS]], [[HP-UX]]
| genre = [[Desktop environment]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website = docs.hp.com/en/A2615-90003/index.html<br>{{cite web |url=http://docs.hp.com/en/A2615-90003/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315062420/http://docs.hp.com/en/A2615-90003/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 15, 2005  |title=Using Your HP Workstation |access-date=January 5, 2017 }}
}}
'''Visual User Environment''' ('''VUE''' or '''HP VUE''')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/9000_hpux/9.x/B1171-90061_HP_Visual_User_Environment_3.0_Users_Guide_Jul92.pdf|website=bitsavers.org|title=HP Visual User Environment 3.0 User's Guide|access-date=2020-09-07|date=July 1992}}</ref> is a discontinued [[desktop environment]] developed by [[Hewlett-Packard]], intended for use on [[Unix]] [[workstation]]s. VUE is based on the [[Motif (software)|Motif widget toolkit]] and targets the [[X Window System]].

VUE is a precursor to [[Common Desktop Environment]] (CDE), which was also based on Motif.

== History ==
[[File:HP-HP9000-425-Workstation 20.jpg|thumb|[[HP 9000]] model 425 running the login manager for VUE]]
[[File:HP-HP9000-425-Workstation 26.jpg|thumb|[[HP 9000]] model 425 running VUE on [[HP-UX]] 9]]

Work began on VUE in 1988 at [[Apollo Computer]] for use with [[Domain/OS]], as an alternative to Apollo's standard DM and wmgr.

Shortly later, HP acquired Apollo, where they released the first version of VUE for Domain/OS, and then went on to modify VUE for use with [[HP-UX]].

* '''VUE 1.0''' – Released with [[Domain/OS]] SR10.4
* '''VUE 1.1'''
* '''VUE 2.0''' – Released for [[HP-UX]]
* '''VUE 2.0.1'''
* '''VUE 3.0''' – Released with [[HP-UX]] 9.0 in 1992

According to an article published in the ''Hewlett-Packard Journal'', the look and feel of HP-VUE was used when developing the Common Desktop Environment (CDE):<ref name="vue-migration">{{cite journal | url=http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/96apr/apr96a4.pdf | title=Migrating HP VUE Desktop Customizations to CDE | first1=Molly | last1=Joy | journal=Hewlett-Packard Journal | volume=47 | issue=2 | date=August 1996 | access-date=August 19, 2014 | pages=29–37 }}</ref>

{{quote|HP is one of four sponsor companies that contributed key technologies and helped to develop CDE (Common Desktop Environment). CDE's consistent look and feel is based on HP's proven and accepted HP VUE technology.}}

After its release, HP endorsed CDE as the new standard desktop for Unix, and provided documentation and software for migrating VUE customizations to CDE.<ref name="vue-migration" />

== See also ==
* [[Motif Window Manager]]
* [[Common Desktop Environment]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{cite web
  |url = http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1991-02.pdf
  |title = A Visual User Interface for the HP-UX and Domain Operating Systems
  |access-date = 2014-08-19
  |author = Mark A. Champine
  |date = February 1991
  |work = Hewlett-Packard Journal
}}
* {{cite web
 |url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~byoder/HP/HPVUE3_Journal.pdf 
 |title=A Graphical User Interface for a Multimedia Environment 
 |access-date=2007-07-31 
 |author=Charles V. Fernandez 
 |date=April 1994 
 |work=Hewlett-Packard Journal 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221183803/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~byoder/HP/HPVUE3_Journal.pdf 
 |archive-date=2007-02-21 
 |url-status=dead 
}}
* [http://www.lnf.infn.it/computing/unix/HPTutorial/chapter1.html Introduction to HP VUE]
* [https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/Docs/20020202120550 HP Vue and CDE: Differences Between the Interfaces] (Purdue University)

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