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

[Patrick O'Donnell]

>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:54:56 +0300
>From: "Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)" <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
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>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?

I really hope that you are indulging in sarcasm, here.

We have customers all over the world that are using our "very old"
applications for mission-critical operations.  Well, the applications
themselves are not "very old", but they have grown up over the past 25
years based on our /stable/ infrastructure quite happily using the
core protocol with no extensions.  I expect them to continue to run
for years to come.

"Old" does not always imply inferior.

		- Patrick