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I wonder if people will be able to take this new windowing system and use it for their own purposes. That would be fantastic, if the new windowing system is goo
by markbao 17y ago
I wonder if people will be able to take this new windowing system and use it for their own purposes. That would be fantastic, if the new windowing system is good.
- andreyf 17y agoYes, as soon as it becomes open source later in the year. I'm not sure how fantastic it would be, considering it would be Yet Another Windows System which only runs on these netbooks. Instead, I'd be really impressed witha good windowing systems impemented using the canvas tag, something like: http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/ http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/
- tlrobinson 17y agoI think Lively uses SVG, not Canvas.
- access_denied 17y agoIf it frees us from X, that would be an improvement - I am holding my breath.
- thristian 17y agoNo doubt it will be a windowing system optimized for showing exactly one full-screen "window", and perhaps occasional modal dialogs. I believe both Qt and GTK+ can be compiled to draw directly to the Linux framebuffer, if you don't want to use X (although they don't exactly provide much in the way of window management).
- sielskr 17y agoYes, they can, but it is not as robust as X. Now and then you have to reboot the whole OS to reset the windowing system.
- markbao 17y agoIs there anything better than X to render stuff to using Qt?
- rythie 17y agoYou could still use X with just window manager optimized for fullscreen like in Ubuntu Remix.