lack of standardization on X11 (was Re: X Gesture Extension protocol - draft proposal v1)

[Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0200, ext Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.

20 years old *core* apps, i.e., using the core protocol. I can run those here
because MeeGo's server stills compliant with X11 protocol.

But hey, why do we care about these very old apps being compliant with todays
server? Who in fact really uses those?

             Tiago