--Mike == Mike A Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lukas Molzberger wrote:
Another source of complexity comes from the ancient, more than 10
years old X API. Many people argue that one just has to add new
extensions to keep XFree up to date.
Mike It is
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I personally don't see any alternative to overcome
the current problems of XFree.
I don't see real problems in XFree, and think that one of the best
features of X is the networking
We need the X-newbies website - www.x-newbies.org ;)
It is very important and XFree86 should publish
a book for BASIC X window concept. It should explain
all basic concepts of the Xwindow with example
picture etc. Presently in Xfree86 very very less no.of
picture are available to
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Christian Berger wrote:
Netscape is much faster than Mozilla. I think it's just that some
design decisions in the X version of Mozilla, which is probably much
different than the Window's version, are suboptimal. Having seen enough
Well I doubt Mozilla for Windows
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, José Fonseca wrote:
As far as development being stuck, no, I don't think so. It's just
that the people who know enough about anything to get things done are
very few.
True, but there are reasons for that.
The reason is that this stuff is difficult.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:39:10AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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I don't interpret what Mark said like that at all.
[...]
(This comment below applies to all your comments I've cut here.)
People's expectations and potential are always a very subjective matter.
Perhaps I didn't understand
Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, José Fonseca wrote:
I'm a mechanical engineer - my formation includes just an intro to
Pascal and Fortran programming. My programming skills were self tought
since my 10 years, but have very few things that I can show as programming
experience proof.
Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Christian Berger wrote:
Netscape is much faster than Mozilla. I think it's just that some
design decisions in the X version of Mozilla, which is probably much
different than the Window's version, are suboptimal. Having seen enough
Well I
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] José Fonseca wrote:
My interest in the XFree86 development is infact rather specific: the
RandR extension will be a crucial brick for a proper 3D support on lower
end cards such as Mach64 which have little onboard memory.
My question to you is: why do you
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Bharathi S wrote:
We need the X-newbies website - www.x-newbies.org ;)
It is very important and XFree86 should publish
a book for BASIC X window concept. It should explain
all basic concepts of the Xwindow with example
picture etc. Presently in Xfree86 very
Le mar 16/07/2002 à 19:52, Andrew P. Lentvorski a écrit :
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] José Fonseca wrote:
My interest in the XFree86 development is infact rather specific: the
RandR extension will be a crucial brick for a proper 3D support on lower
end cards such as Mach64 which
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:52:22AM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] José Fonseca wrote:
My interest in the XFree86 development is infact rather specific: the
RandR extension will be a crucial brick for a proper 3D support on lower
end cards such as
Am Dienstag, 16. Juli 2002 20:17 schrieben Sie:
Le mar 16/07/2002 à 19:52, Andrew P. Lentvorski a écrit :
If he does help to implement RandR into XFree, his time won't be wasted.
Moreover, that's what I like with opensource: I can find top-class OS
drivers for old hardware, and use these
This thread has gone all over the place, but I have a suggestion. Has
anyone considered setting up something like LXR (http://lxr.linux.no)
against the sources for XFree86? I have occasionally had the need to browse
the sources, but it seems to me that they are not segmented very logically.
I
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Andrew Berg wrote:
This thread has gone all over the place, but I have a suggestion. Has
anyone considered setting up something like LXR (http://lxr.linux.no)
against the sources for XFree86? I have occasionally had the need to browse
I second that motion!
-Peter
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lukas Molzberger wrote:
Hello,
in recent years many people were talking about Linux on the desktop.
However, before there is any real chance that this could happen a few
fundamential problems in XFree must be solved. These are:
1. XFree is far too slow.
What is your
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
I know there have been countless discussions on the X messaging system, but
most of them missed the point. That is that such a messaging system
introduces an enormous amount of complexity. As far as I know the only reason
for having the X messaging
On 15 Jul 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lukas Molzberger wrote:
Hello,
in recent years many people were talking about Linux on the desktop.
However, before there is any real chance that this could happen a few
fundamential problems in XFree must be solved. These are:
1. XFree is far too slow.
No
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote:
An effort at a website with tutorials, HOWTO's and other
developer related help information geared at helping NEW
developers get up to scratch on given areas would be very useful
if someone has the time to work on it. I've been writing some
things
Quoting Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I personally don't see any alternative to overcome
the current problems of XFree.
I don't see real problems in XFree, and think that one of the best
features of X is the networking capabilities. Indeed, have a look to
how
easy is to have
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