Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:50:28 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > >previous message, is whether you see this fatter display server as > >part of the OS (i.e. the kernel) or not. I hope that you don't > >actually propose that such a server be part of the kernel. > > But using GGI sounds like a good idea for me. > > Actually, there's one major problem with X in my opinion: X server tries to > be both windowing system _and_ a video driver. It would be good if we would > have a windowing system which would be complete having all widgets > (as modules, so that widgets could be replaced with another ones, so > that all programs would start using the new set then) but _not_ being > a video driver.
That's more like our frame buffer devices: the video mode is set up by the kernel, while the X server mmap()s the video memory and draws in the frame buffer memory.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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