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I wonder if there is possibility their new window system is going to replace the bloated X window system in other distributions.
by btw0 17y ago
I wonder if there is possibility their new window system is going to replace the bloated X window system in other distributions.
- blasdel 17y agoThey have one of the best chances to pull it off out of all the attempts over the last 25 years. I really hope they try to go big -- bury ALSA cleanly, use Skia for all drawing as vectors, and have an event model intended for Cocoa/WPF/GTK# (not the crapulence of Xt).
- tvon 17y agoThe barrier to replacing X is not replacing X, it is the significant rewriting of software that uses X.
- blasdel 17y agoAnd the first massive hump there is getting the replacement good enough to even bother thinking about rewrites. Google has a chance to leap past that, because they've contrived a situation where they not only don't need X, they don't need to port X apps.
- tvon 17y agoWell, yeah, but you're not talking about replacing X anymore (which is what the GP post was talking about).
- Raphael_Amiard 17y agoWich is not necessarily a problem since they seem to be aiming for a minimal local software stack.
- limmeau 17y ago... and porting or rewriting the device drivers.