On 2002-07-15 at 01:11 +0200, Lukas Molzberger uttered: | Hello, | in recent years many people were talking about Linux on the desktop. | However, before there is any real chance that this could happen a few | fundamential problems in XFree must be solved. These are:
Linux on the desktop -- for your average, casual computer user -- admittedly is still a long way off. I'm implying that, OMG (and God forbid) one actually needs a functional brain to make any real use of Linux and a lot of know-how to make it their OS of choice. As we say, Linux is user friendly. It just tends to be picky about its freinds. | 1. XFree is far too slow. Compared to...?? Windows? OSX? A VW Beetle? Compared to what? | 2. What is presented on the screen should always be consistent (i.e. no | flickering). Elaborate. | (3. It should be possible to configure XFree over a dialog that is intergrated | in Gnome and Kde.) | This is up to the Gnome & KDE people, ie, Gnome and KDE are third parties. The XFree86 team has nothing to do with integrating config tools into your desktop of choice; this is up to the maintainers of your desktop. [snip] | introduces an enormous amount of complexity. As far as I know the only reason | for having the X messaging system is the remote display feature. But I guess | that less than 5% of the XFree users are actually using this feature and | there are already other solutions like VNC available. | Another source of complexity comes from the ancient, more than 10 years | old X API. Many people argue that one just has to add new extensions to keep [snip] 5%? I'm sure the percentage is far higher than you suspect, although I -- like you -- have no authoritative source at hand. Walk into any large commericial institution -- or any place other than the bedroom of a dribbling 14-yr old -- that uses some variant of Unix as a primary platform to get their job done. With my hand on God I will guarantee that every admin and every other such individual that uses and abuses X on a daily basis would not be able to function efficiently or cheaply without the use of remote displays. It's rather nice to be able to ssh to a box half way around the world and run an X app, not to mention a helluva lot cheaper than flying half way around the world. Cheers. krjw. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
