On Tue, 2005-26-04 at 11:28 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The curious thing here with regard to Xprint, is that upstream has been > holding discussions with other X.org hackers over whether Xprint runs > best as a stand-alone server, or whether a unified print+display server > is a better idea. There are 3 alternatives: > 1) separate servers (the current situation) > 2) unified server run separate on different displays (one for video, one for > print) > 3) unified server, just the one running which handles both video and print > requests. > > It's not clear yet which version X.org will end up with. Version 2 > kind of makes sense to me, sharing as much code as possible between the > different kinds of server. But Version 3 is being considered favourably.
... by the Xprint folks? I have yet to see anybody else who thinks it's a good idea. Then again, about the same is true for Xprint in general... PS: I like David's roadmap in general. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
