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Have you ever tried to repair things in a new car with electronic fuel injection and computer-driven brakes? A huge advantage of X11 and all that other "70s tec
by sqrt17 16y ago
Have you ever tried to repair things in a new car with electronic fuel injection and computer-driven brakes? A huge advantage of X11 and all that other "70s technology" is that you can fix things more easily because it's built for being maintainable in the first place.
Having said that, I think that splitting the X server into one lightweight compositing manager and one slightly less heavyweight X-server-on-top-of-the-compositing-manager is less of a disaster than what we got with KDE4. I'll only start worrying when KDE and Gnome catch up and they start having UI programs talk directly to the compositing engine.
- barkingcat 16y agoI'm not sure about the easy to fix concept. By all accounts the X codebase is one nasty beast to wrap your head around. The protocols are well documented, but the actual code - it takes some crazy digging to actually understand it enough to be able to fix things in X-land.
- wmf 16y agoRealistically, something like 1% of Ubuntu users could fix their xorg.conf. Either it works or it doesn't, and in my experience a simpler architecture (Wayland) is more likely to work.