On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:
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> Methinks now is not the time for another GUI standard. Now is the
> time to take the codebase of X, cut out all the fat, the never used
> features, FORGET compliance with that watyamacallit X consortium, and
> plain and simply keep the focus: Desktop GUI. No more fancy stuff
> like remote X connections which aren't really used, and who's
> functionality can be duplicated with programs like VNC.
remote X functions better than VNC in my experience.
If you forget compliance with the X Consortium, then you're going it
alone. The X Consortium is what's held X together all these years.
..
> The performance problem is not only limited to KDE, but to your
> favorite GNOME as well. And guess what is the common layer between
> the two. Hmmm, X?
Funny. My office PC is a 300MHz P-II running GNOME. And it's plenty fast
for me.
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