Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Can't X be elemenated? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:11:43 -0400 |
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:14:56 +0530, kartikey bhatt said:
> Can't X be elemenated?
And replaced with what?
Don't point me at "experimental development systems". I can't use something that's just now getting to the "display a window" stage. I need something that will *already* support a Mozilla port (or equivalent), my mail reader, an equally functional [A-Za-z]term emulator, and have enough backward compatibility/emulation that I can tunnel X connections from other machines from other vendors and use their GUI tools (yes, some of us still have Solaris, Tru64, IRIX, and AIX boxes and need to deal with them on a regular basis - and those vendors haven't bought into the "replace X" kool-aid yet).
And I'm not convinced that much of the trouble is X's fault, as opposed to a poor implementation of X:
http://xcb.cs.pdx.edu/
Any discussion of replacing X needs to understand why Berlin isn't the dominant windowing system currently. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |