Re: IceWM vs Fluxbox: Future of Ice

> After reading about Ubuntu looking to the future of small devices if I
> were a developer i would be looking at ICEwm having a bright future on
> smaller devices.  What's old is new again.

I fear you've missed an important bit of the news, particularly as
regards Ubuntu: apparently they've decided to move away from X to a
display technology called Wayland. X is a bit of a dinosaur, and as
wonderful a dinosaur as it is in many ways, I believe it is unlikely to
survive TOO much longer, and certainly not on mobile devices.

IceWM is a creature whose existence and fate is bound up entirely with
that of X... Ice has no meaning without X. As long as we're using PC-
class machines, which will be quite a while longer, X has a chance of
surviving, and Ice with it. But I suspect that Wayland and other new,
fast, slick, modern ways of making usable visual displays on screens
will explode onto the scene in the coming years, and X will fade away.
I don't think many people will miss it, frankly.... those who continue
to use it will be mostly old-timer IT professionals.

Dave

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