--- Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you want from X besides vendor support?
> It's run my hardware from a
> 66 MHz 486 up to the nasty Nvidia mobo I have using
> KDE with all sorts of eye
> candy and fancy fonts.
>
> There's even a port of it to
> Zaurus that looks nice
> and I still have a 24MB, 90 MHz Pentium laptop that
> runs afterstep and gnome
> one well. People complain about X but it seems
> remarkably flexible and
> powerful. What 24 volume ORiley nightmare are slick
> interfaces, TKL and
> Kdevelop hiding from me?
To me, X seems like a kludgey mess. The reason why KDE
and Gnome exist is because X is a pain to write apps
for. And there aren't any free|open source
replacements for X that I know of. Do you? Why?
I just think that with the kind of graphics technology
that we have now that another GUI layer could be
developed that would take better advantage of current
video hardware and run like a bat out of hell. Beos
ran circles around X, for example.
I am not an expert on X by any means. Most of what
I've gathered concerning the foibles of X is from my
own experience with trying to configure it for funky
old hardware and failing.
John
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