The whole GGI/KGI spat

I've been trying to avoid actually posting because it drains time from
coding; I'll keep this short.

First I'd like to ask folks to please calm down and concentrate on
finding points of unity that everyone can agree on.  Also, even if
there has been too much damage done in the past and the present
threads on the subject for X people to feel inclined to work towards
at least running on GGI or KGI, both sides can learn a lot from the
other, *if* the criticisms are kept constructive.  By constructive, I
mean point out how the other side could make non-invasive improvements
that increase the usefulness of the communal codebase.

I don't think there are many people here that do not realize that
modularity and reusability of code are desirable traits.  It's pretty
well accepted by and large.

Also I don't think there are many here that do not realize that in
order to milk hardware for what it is worth, X needs much more
thorough kernel-space support than currently provided by DRI.  This
could come as a result of improving DRI, starting something new, or
developing KGI to the point where it can satisfy X's needs, but in the
end, it has to get *done*.

Finally, both sides can level criticism at each other about how they
"go to far" and entangle things that they don't need to be playing
with.  Both sides are right in that fight, that's not the question.
The question is, how do we fix it?

As an example, consider GII.  This is a under-rated concept that could
sure use the love and care it deserves, and has the potential to
either act as a source for code for, or itself be morphed, into
something really incredibly useful (not that it isn't pretty useful
already.)  Doing so would releive the X community from having to
support that section of their codebase -- all the mouse protocols,
internal keymapping mess, and OS-level nuances could be worked on by a
group that includes both people who don't like X, and people who don't 
like the graphics portion of GGI.  Even people who don't like either.  
The difference here is that they would be working together in spite of
this fact.

OK, so that sounded way band-campish, and I am picking at the low
hanging fruit admittedly.  But you get the picture.  Please lets try
to get something more out of this conversation than elevated stress
levels.

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Brian S. Julin
GGI and KGI Projects