Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:41:21 +0200 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: GGI and cli/sti in X |
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On Mar 29, linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> Sorry Linus, I see a flaw here.. and I'm sure most other people do too.. > > X is not the only graphical program for Linux. Hopefully, it never will > be.. Right now I can setup a nice Linux boot disk with a nice SVGAlib > program. I could never put X on a disk or two. X also uses lots of memory.
and you think a SVGAlib supporing _all_ current cards (or at leat those which are supported by XFree86;) is so small that it's a good idea to put it on a single book disk? ;-)
and what happens for a new unknown card, if your great magic pinuin (or whatever) trashes graphics setup ? do you really thing this is an _important_ argument to trash existing code? I don't think so.
> Therefor, it would be stupid to force all programers who want graphical > programming to use X.. It wouldn't be the Linux way (TM).
for me, the `Linux way (TM)' is to do it _compatible_ if possible and if there are not _very_good_ arguments for other, better solutions. (see the "Securelevel bitmap patch" thread right now here on linux-kernel for such a `incompatibility' for good reasons).
> Is sound like that you are advocating that all graphics use X..
correct
> What would happen with your userspace modesetting daemon when it meets up > with the likes of a svgalib game.. or dosemu.. > > If you are > then your wrapper would work fine.. However, forcing X for graphics is > really not acceptiable.. (At least not to me :) ).
so why not work on improving that `wrapper' ? I don't need it so I won't...
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