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I've come to conclude (as a home-and-office Linux user for nigh on 15 years now) that the standard Unix gui environment of X + widget toolkits + desktop environ
by slurry 14y ago
I've come to conclude (as a home-and-office Linux user for nigh on 15 years now) that the standard Unix gui environment of X + widget toolkits + desktop environment is just too multilayered and complex to work for non-boffins. Too many moving parts that can go subtly wrong.
You can succeed as an end-user Unix, but you have to burn down the gui architecture and start over.
Apple ditched X. Android ditched X. But no "desktop Linux" offering has yet completely ditched the legacy junk. You'd need that (and good OEM relationships) to succeed.
What' s the architecture of this Ubuntu phone gui? Is it gtk and X.org? or something new?
- tree_of_item 14y agoCanonical is in the process of ditching X: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland Ubuntu Phone uses Qt/QML and HTML5: http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
- Thrymr 14y agoIt's too bad that X11 is still the only GUI that really works remotely (for an individual application, not a full desktop).
- muyuu 14y agoWeb is another GUI that works remotely for an individual application. Sure it's not perfect but neither is X.