>   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/

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