> Remote X is (in my experience) very rare, probably under 1% Remote X is very important, and very widely used. Network transparency is what makes X unique and useful. If you don't want that overhead check out DirectFB or whatever that other windowing system project is called.
> Local X is (in my experience) very common, probably 99% Yes, and Windows is 99% common too, and we don't want to turn Linux into windows, now do we. But by your logic, we should. Those 1% are important :) > Should X continue with a model that makes improvements to > the common case very slow/difficult so that the rare case > preforms okay? Yes. > Should X move to a model that makes it much easier to add > improvements to the common case and then require the rare > case to be handled as a special case? What else do we need the friggin' X primitives to do? The clients can do whatever they want _and_ stay network transparent. -- Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coordinator, Notes Project http://notes.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
