[Xorg] Server side widgets

[Ely Levy]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Roland Mainz wrote:

> Ely Levy wrote:
> > latly I saw quite a few flame wars about server side widgets,
> > People from projects like y-windows and onyx claim for performance
> > improvments and nicer cleaner implementations,
> > as well as that X doesn't support it from the plain reason it is old.
> > I got the impression it was a design descision, which lead to many
> > diffrent tool kits.
> >
> > My question is, why did X chose not to use server side widgets (if it was
> > ever concidered)?
>
> Well, you will need something like a server-side language to get the
> widgets working. DPS(=Display PostScript) was capable to do server-side
> widgets - but somehow DPS was lost deep in hell.
> Today such a project will likely "die" in the flamewar "which language
> should be used: JAVA, Perl, PostScript, TCL, bash(ouch!) etc. ..." ...
> =:-)
I think ywindows onyx persco just used simple c/c++?
What the advantage of bytecode?

> This issue could be solved via a platform-independent bytecode
> interpreter... but I still doubt that something like server-side widgets
> will ever become popular - it's a radically different approach compared
> to today's toolkits and people don't like to rewrite/invent the stuff
> from scratch if the "old ways" still work.
Yea, but if that is the reason, moving forward should happen at some
point.

> > and what other advantages/disadvatages it has?
>
> First things which come in mind: How can I debug those widgets ? How can
> I stop one widget from screwing up the whole server (e.g. grab CPU, grab
> all memory) ?


Write them well?:)
actually i saw it happen in client side as well, making certain
clients go berserk and take all CPU,
so there isn't much diffrance IMOH.

Ely