Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG
Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:29:10 -0800 (PST)
Why spend time putting a bag on the side of X, even if it will never be entirely
what you want? Why not just work on developing a new system that will be all
the things you want, and more extensible and powerful too? I'd hack X if I
thought that it was a good platform...kinda along the lines of Linux, why
hack Minix into something that it'll never be really good at? You have to take
a running stab a completely new model, that's what Linux was.
--Perry
>
> > There is, I think, still room for bumming X implementations and protocols
> > a bit before giving up on it.
>
> Plenty of it. Adding support for acceleration of image scaling, and video
> scaling would help too.
>
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