alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> X is meant to provide services not policy. Thats very important. You
> can run your own policy engine and interface on the server if you wish
You can write a server under X that does exactly what Pavel says. We
see it every day in our window managers.
pavel@elf.ucw.cz said:
> No. In many cases (menus, dialog boxes, ...) it is really ineffective
> to transfer data by lines as X do it.
Who said that X transfers such things by lines?
Anyhow, even if the X server isn't perfect (it isn't) it is a far better
starting point then most of the other options. You can almost surely
implemented a better MS-Windows with X then the other way around:-)
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