Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 17 May 2006 09:46:30 -0400 | | From | "Bob Copeland" <> | | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! |
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On 5/17/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:39:37PM +0200, linux cbon wrote: > > If we have a new window system, shall all applications > > be rewritten ? > > Unless you make your new system compatible with X, then all X > applications must be rewritten.
True for things written directly with Xlib, but hardly anything new is written without a toolkit these days. E.g. someone could port GDK to the new windowing system of the week and all GTK+ applications would work. Though I won't disagree that the idea is pointless.
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