Re: X is dead. Long live windows.

Propably a stupid question, but:
Do you still work on ion or will you let it die (which would be very
sad, because it's the only window manager I can productively work with)

Regards,
Lukas

Am Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:03:42 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>:

> 
> The X we all knew is dying, and it's being killed by its developers.
> 
> As their latest onslaught, the Xorg dickheads have removed 
> SaveUnders from X. Expect flicker when dragging tabs or 
> moving windows under Ion and a new and rusy X. They want you
> to implement and use a heavy memory, cpu, and battery-hungry
> composite manager instead... and do not provide a generic 
> one worth shit.
> 
> They do not follow the original design of X and extend it; 
> they gradually replace everything with crap and remove the 
> old ways of doing things. Soon on their list will be core
> the good old fonts, as they want you to use their blur-fascist
> fantasies. It's impossible to keep up with the shit that the 
> FOSScracy throws at you, unless you're one of the big 
> corporate-sponsored projects that is already part of the FOSScracy.
> 
> The lamers even banned me from posting on the list. Censorship, 
> silencing the critique. Sure sing of an incompetent tyranny.
> 
> 
> It was a good time to switch to Windows. X as we knew it will 
> soon no longer be. 
> 
> 
> Something to laugh at:
> 
> On the same tread, the fuckwits discuss how they need some way
> to identify displays for DPI settings etc... after they removed
> simple display identification by switching from the good old X
> multihead o Xinerama/Xrandr crap.
> 
>