On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 14:55, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Hmm, I guess this was my confusion... I'm a Java developer, so I'm used to >everything display related to be event driven. That is, in Java (AWT and Swing at >least), the application is supposed to always keep all the state, and be able to >paint itself at any moment. Under such a model, the X-server wouldn't need to keep >any state - whenever it's restarted, the window manager would simply ask all the >windows to repaint themselves, restoring everything. Or am I missing something here?
Alexander does have a point here. Of course, there are certain things which can be kept on server only (e.g. server-side stored pixmaps), but we can easily work around those issues, especially with modern toolkits which abstract drawing and usually keep the state of their widgets and drawing boards in memory anyway. So, all in all, this is not technically infeasible (i.e. X11 is not the showstopper) -- it just that nobody went ahead and coded it yet. Oh well, anyone for a Qt patch? :) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
