> > Is GGI/KGI ending as a curiosity - another kind of graphics library - ,
>
> I am afraid it will - regarding Linux.
>
> > or does it have a future as a basic part of Linux?
>
> It has a future, but I assume it will rather be in the embedded systems
> market. It's used quite some there .... ;-).
>
> Yeah, I know - all that sounds pretty pessimistic. And I always feel pretty
> sad, when it comes to that topic. GGI is "my baby" more than any other open
> source project. And there is quite some blood, sweat and tears I and several
> other people put into it, so it really hurts to see it fall in decay. I'm
> pretty busy these days juggling two jobs, so I don't have so much time left
> to work on GGI. While this is bad for GGI, it helps a little to distract me
> from my "broken heart" about the project's state.
I totally dissagree. GGI has just recently become extremely useable. I use
it every day, from things to playing 3-monitor quake (i.e. midget wars ;) to
running multiple X servers. Running these things, is uncovering some kernel
bugs. (USB support was implementing scheduling wrong, and would OOPS (think
it's fixed now), the matrox fbdev stopped recognizing a second matrox card
somewhere between 2.4.0-test5 and 2.4.0-test6, etc) I'm not shure if the
"computer hangs when switching VC's" is the kernels fault or libGGI's, but
i plan to start deploying GGI on every system i touch as soon as these bugs
are fixed.
Even sunday i had someone telling me about playing quake in text mode... that
had the scent of GGI all over it :) so somebody's using it.
I do realize that i am probably one of the most intensive users of GGI, but
from where i sit, i have trouble imagining how people will be able to live
witout it soon.
one of the troubles that i had with GGI was that it took me a while to learn
what i was doing. things *are* documented, but for some reason, it still
took me a while. this should be solved after the next release though, and
the latest features get into the standard distributions. actually if you
wanted more people to use it, you should talk to the people creating the
distribution, and convince them of the benifits of installing GGI & XGGI by
default. (of course, this would be bad for me, since with more users, i
would get less personalized attention from the list ;)
> But maybe some folks here would like to cheer me up a little ?
>
> What GGI needs is a driving force. Look at the mailing list. It's quiet.
> Really quiet.
I personally avoid posting to the list whenever possible. I don't want
everyone to tire of me too quickly, so just post when it's important.
Corey
