Why X protocol/server forbid zero width/height?

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:55 +0200, Alexander Shopov wrote:
> > http://www.std.org/~msm/common/protocol.pdf
> Quite interesting paper.
> 
> > This paper goes over many mistakes we made.  And note, with XFixes, we
> > are in fact fixing problems where we can.
> > 				- Jim
> XFixes fixes things within the existing protocol - which is very good 
> indeed and will help quickly spread it.
> Still - are there plans to fix/change/re-implement the protocol itself? 
> I am sure this will be no easy task - the current X protocol is a *big* 
> success and a new version will have to struggle like IPv6 aggainst IPv4. 
> But things are not set in stone, you know ;-)
> And such a huge change will have to be planned years ahead (5 or more).
> So - will there be a new version of the X protocol in 2010?

Ah, you haven't detected the deep, dark, plot ;-)...  We are much of the
way through this process already, with the new extensions, and all the
old apps continue to run.

Turns out the protocol framework is decent enough that we don't suffer
too badly by remaining in its framework.
			- Jim