On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:12:56 +0100 Attila Kinali <att...@kinali.ch> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:07:18 +0100 > Florian Mickler <flor...@mickler.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:40:16 -0400 > > E0x <samud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > a so useful thing like the zaphod mode with relatively small users ? in my > > > opinion > > > i don't think that , in my case i used have it for run my media center in > > > 0.1 and the normal desktop in 0.0 so i can still watch my media while > > > some > > > friends or somebody chat or surf without interfece , i can't do that now > > > because zaphod is broken , with not put a poll for ask if keep the zaphod > > > in > > > some new way ( or the old way ) of just take out it .. > > > > > > > How i see it, the only way to vote here is with patches. Which IMO is > > apropriate, this being open source software. > > This depends on your ability to understand the code. > Although i was the maintainer of the mga_vid driver > (a specialized video overlay driver for matrox cards), > i was not able to fix the many bugs in the mga driver of xorg. > The code was so convoluted that i couldnt even figure out how > it could be working in the first place. Hence i gave up on it. > > IMHO xorg (and many other projects) reached a state of > code complexity that makes it very difficult for newcomers > to enter. You've to invest huge amounts of time to even get > an overview how the code works. Making it nearly impossible > to enter for anyone who doesn't have a lot of time which > he can freely spend on coding. > > Attila Kinali > Yeah. I looked at it myself... One problem I faced was that one needs to understand the xserver<->driver interface before being able to do anything. To do this, there should be (and probably is?) a documentation about the xserver inner workings... cheers, Flo _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
