lack of standardization on X11 (was Re: X Gesture Extension protocol - draft proposal v1)
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Aug 18 06:50:02 PDT 2010
Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) wrote:
> The whole point to create a consistent protocol is the life time that it will
> last. Right now I don't see any consistency between X applications that I'm
> building today with the ones we had in the last decade. I cannot run both in
> the same X server. I even doubt I can use today's X app in the upcoming 2 or
> 3 years server.
Then you have horribly broken your X server - we are still running 20 year old
apps on Xorg here, in modern GNOME & Compiz desktops alongside brand new apps.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
More information about the xorg-devel
mailing list