Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > > So? Your point? I don't want to run linux on this machine. My question > > above was partially a joke and partially a rhetorical one. I don't need > > to be lectured on the joy and simplicity of the explorer interface (tho > > neither seem to apply). Let's not turn this into a Microsoft lovefest. > > My point was that Rootless mode is a fluff setting, something that really > > isn't that important. Perhaps a better use of time could be spent > > figuring out how to profile and improve the performance of the X server? > > Or perhaps making truetype fonts easier for people to use in X? > > > Nicholas -- > There are lots of worthy areas why Xserv on cygwin can be improved. > You have your priorities, other people have theirs. Unfortunately, you > ARE in the extreme minority, so you're going to have to sit back and > watch rootless be discussed an implemented. Probably before TT or > profiling or ... > > Why? > > Go read the Slashdot thread from Sunday, 7 July 2002. Almost every > third message was "It's pretty good, but it doesn't have a rootless > mode. All commercial Xservs on windows have one; this won't be a > [serious|real|usable|finished] product until it does, too." > > There was even one message that basically said "This thing sucks ***. It > doesn't have a rootless mode". Okay, so the guy was a troll, but nobody > contradicted him... > > We even got two or three spill-over questions which were obviously > stimulated by the Slashdot story, where folks we'd never heard of wrote > to the mailing list to say "Cygwin Xserver is really cool, but I > [won't|can't] use it until it has a rootless mode. When will that be?" > > Finally, and most importantly, Harold *wants* to work on a rootless > mode. He's scratching his own itch. If you want to work on TT support, > nobody is stopping you. -- go scratch. <g> > > --Chuck >
Chuck, Thanks for writing that response. That was exactly what I was going to say: someone complains about the lack of a rootless mode at least once a week, but no one ever complains about truetype fonts or profiling the server. I think that the performance question that got turned into a profiling question is really due to the way that we draw graphics, which we are working on fixing with the Native GDI engine. In any case, rootless mode is a top priority. Harold
