On Friday 29 August 2003 23:55, Meir Kriheli wrote: > > X is a piece of software most in need of a redesign if I ever saw one. > > Shouldn't the toolkit handle it instead of X ?
No - the X server encapsualtes low level hardware interfaces into high level API. for the tool kit to go around it is completly counter productive - you undo all the work that the X people has put in, throw toolkit compatibility out of the window, get your life incredibly complicated and basicly you'd better off designing a new X replacement from scratch (which some people are already doing). BTW - some toolkits already do some low level stuff, to work around X limitations. these toolkits then suffer from a lot of problems when using remote X: try to get konqueror to run even on a 100MBit ethernet - its almost unusable. > Take a look at evas, for example, used in upcoming enlightenment (anyone > knows when ?): Probably next century. I've used enlightenment when I first started running linux, and not a long time after that, 0.16 came out. how many years since that was ? EVAS is trying to do a lot of things that X should do but can't/won't - a noble cause. I hope they also plan to port it to run over other interesting stuff like fresco (aka berlin) and DirectFB. -- Oded ================================================================= 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]
