Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:47:43PM -0500, Jim Doherty wrote:
> I generally loath  consortium generated software,  just look at the 
> bloat-ware that was OSF (I still cringe everytime I have to work on a 
> CDE desktop),   but the open source community needs it's software to 
> work in a commercial UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Iris) environment and 
> breaking off from this would be a very bad thing.    Maybe some of the 
> effort being spent here should be re-directed to encourage better 
> communication with X.org.

I wouldn't worry about that - GNOME, KDE, etc. are pretty firmly
committed to continuing to work on older X servers, and nobody is
going to go the X12 route (break back compat). So new stuff is always
either a library you can install regardless of your X server
(e.g. fontconfig) or an extension that we use only optionally
(e.g. RENDER).

Havoc