[Xcb] 7.7 katamari Release Notes draft & RC1 content list

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at freedesktop.org
Fri Apr 6 22:30:57 PDT 2012


On Apr 6, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 04/ 1/12 09:18 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 08:34:06AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>> On 04/ 1/12 01:12 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>> Can we add Xvfb, Xnest, Xephyr, and Xfake in the future removals section? =) 
>>> 
>>> They're already there - third item in the list:
>>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~alanc/7.7-draft-ReleaseNotes.html#Future_Removals
>>> 
>>> Do I need to explicitly give their names to make it clearer?
>> 
>> Yes, I think naming them would help, as well as naming the Xorg drivers
>> that replace them (dummy and nested).
> 
> Okay, updated to:
> 
>          As described in the section called “Overview of X11R7.7”, this
> Nested    release contains several X servers that either display onto another X
> and       server (Xephyr & Xnest), or render into a virtual memory framebuffer
> virtual X (Xvfb & Xfake). These may be replaced in a future release by use of
> servers   the Xorg server with the xf86-video-nested and xf86-video-dummy
>          drivers which perform the same tasks.

Thanks.



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