Re: xfree will be the best....
Vadim Plessky <[email protected]>
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On Saturday 05 April 2003 23:35, James Arthur wrote: | On Saturday 05 April 2003 21:54, [email protected] wrote: | > I REALLY LOVE linux + Xfree but for THE desktop | > domination, IMHO, the way to follow is: | | Remember that XFree86 isn't just for Linux, and desktop domination isn't | really the business of XFree86: it's more to do with the Linux | distributors. Well, it can be that some people do not care about running XFree86 on Desktop, but to my best knowledge, a lot of people indeed use XFree86 *on Desktop*. And while there is a lot of Xfree86 installs on top of FreeBSD, I hardly beleive FreeBSD would be widely used on Desktop in nearest future. It's used mostly in server area, where it gives a run to many other OSes for their money. | | > 1- To remove the client - server comunication protocol of Xfree, | | That's never going to happen. An awful lot of people rely on using the | client-server architecture, especially in the business world. Besides, as | has been pointed out many a time on this list, the networking aspect is not | used on localhost, so it doesn't really matter. the client - server comunication protocol of Xfree should not be removed, but in many cases usage of this protocol should be avoided, and/or protocol overhead - minimized. | | And you've tried XDirectFB, right? :) | | | > 6 - to replace the Xcore render, with Xrender and RandR | > extensions, and on the top of the Xrender we don't want to use the xlib | > but the win32 graphic api. | | Not sure what to say here. Have you tried programming with the Win32 API? | Besides, Microsoft are phasing it out in favour of a more .NET approach. | Also, Microsoft really don't like Wine. I don't think they'd allow XFree86 | to use it. | I think we should agree that a lot of other libs/toolkits can be implemente don top of RENDER extension. Xr/Xc/XSVG is just a very good example. I can imagine that some kind of WIn32-like API can be implemente don top of it, too. | | --jaa | _______________________________________________ | Forum mailing list | [email protected] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/forum -- Best Regards, Vadim Plessky SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released http://svgicons.sourceforge.net