Visual User Environment should not be confused with VUE (Visual Understanding Environment).
| Visual User Environment | |
| Developer: | Hewlett-Packard |
| Operating System: | Domain/OS, HP-UX |
| Genre: | Desktop environment |
| License: | Proprietary |
| Website: | docs.hp.com/en/A2615-90003/index.html Web site: Using Your HP Workstation . https://web.archive.org/web/20050315062420/http://docs.hp.com/en/A2615-90003/index.html . dead . March 15, 2005 . January 5, 2017 . |
Visual User Environment (VUE or HP VUE)[1] is a discontinued desktop environment developed by Hewlett-Packard, intended for use on Unix workstations. VUE is based on the Motif widget toolkit and targets the X Window System.
VUE is a precursor to Common Desktop Environment (CDE), which was also based on Motif.
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.
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):[2]
After its release, HP endorsed CDE as the new standard desktop for Unix, and provided documentation and software for migrating VUE customizations to CDE.