On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:10:36 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > On Saturday, 7 March 2015 at 17:56:21 UTC, ketmar wrote: >> there is nothing more. simple as it is. > > You are cheating. :P
in no way. ;-) > And there is nothing simple about X11 if you follow the protocols and > want to do real work i wrote some GUI toolkits for X11 in C, and i must say that X11 is simple. > it is outdated by a wide margin yes, we need X12. but not from packard, he is insanely dumb. > and so is the use > scenario: running low level UI events/graphic commands over ethernet > replacing TTYs with the graphical equivalent... It was outdated 25 years > ago! it wasn't outdated. and i must say that i'm using this feature on dayly basis. by the way, X11 is not restricted to do only "low level" things. if only that shitheads didn't kill XIE... > X11 is the Frankenstein of UI X11 was never an UI system. it's WINDOW system. and window is just a rectangular area on a display. that's it. > and has probably made a big dent in > Linux' ability to reach a more casual audience... ah, one of the things of which i can't care less. ;-) > It belongs in a museum... there is no alternative. i'd be happy to get one, but there simply isn't.
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