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Good to hear that rumors of X11's demise have been exaggerated.
by fefe23 6y ago
Good to hear that rumors of X11's demise have been exaggerated.
- gitweb 6y agoI think this statement is exaggerated.
- pabs3 6y agoThis is the libx11 client library, not the Xorg server, which was the thing discussed in the deprecation posts.
- yokem55 6y agoTo be even more explicit (or pedantic if you wish) - it's the bare metal xorg server that is 'deprecated' and not getting further development. The various nested xorg servers (xwayland, xephyr) are still very much alive.
- badsectoracula 6y agoDo be even even more pedantic, it is RedHat's involvement that is deprecated, anyone can grab the source and start fixing bugs if they arise :-P. Like, you can be certain if i try to install Xorg on my PC at some point and i can't get my Window Maker desktop to work properly because of the X server i'll try to fix whatever issue there is.
- kaba0 6y agoI’m sorry but it’s not like a bug in cp or something. It is kind of a big and complicated source where you (pardon me if I’m wrong) can only modify things if you are familiar with the code base. And since most of the actual people who were familiar with the code base left it (because they think it is not worth it, due to the architectural mismatch between Xorg’s model and current hardware), I doubt it would be trivial to fork/debug it.
- badsectoracula 6y agoI have downloaded and read the X server's codebase at the past because i was trying to figure out something (specifically how exactly keyboard input events are exposed). The code is very readable and i'm certain its complexity has been greatly exaggerated. A large part of it is driver/ddx code (that you can generally ignore) and i've worked with much bigger codebases even if we include the driver code. And at the end of the day, it is code, not magic. Given enough time and dedication you can figure things out.