Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:50:28 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> >previous message, is whether you see this fatter display server as
> >part of the OS (i.e. the kernel) or not. I hope that you don't
> >actually propose that such a server be part of the kernel.
>
> But using GGI sounds like a good idea for me.
>
> Actually, there's one major problem with X in my opinion: X server tries to
> be both windowing system _and_ a video driver. It would be good if we would
> have a windowing system which would be complete having all widgets
> (as modules, so that widgets could be replaced with another ones, so
> that all programs would start using the new set then) but _not_ being
> a video driver.
That's more like our frame buffer devices: the video mode is set up by the
kernel, while the X server mmap()s the video memory and draws in the frame
buffer memory.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
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Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium