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picoGUI: An X Alternative?

Posted by michael on from the chi-power dept.

bockman writes "While started as a PDA-oriented project, the picoGUI people seem to be implementing many ideas which I think would be good also for a desktop graphics server ( high-level client/server protocol, presentation layer in the server _but_ modular, application management also modular,...). So I wonder: what would it take (apart porting tons of applications) to make it a suitable alternative to X+[your toolkit of choice]+[your window manager of choice]?"

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  1. WAP, take 2? by Animats · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This looks like an API at the HTML level. We have an API at the HTML level; it's called HTML. Do we need another one?

  2. Re:source code listing by UserGoogol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only if you want to use good style. If you wanna be stupid, than having main return a void is perfectly accetable, and usually compiles okay.

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  3. X isn't slow but OSX's GUI sure is... by bkontr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know this offtopic but why didn't Apple provide compatiblity with X in their GUI? I think they would have at least doubled the amount of apllications that could be run on their platform and herded some developers over to their camp as well. I thought X was bloated, but OSX is relatively slow on my Titanium laptop and I have 768M of Ram...Even using the X Fink provides is faster!

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  4. heh, funny by mrscorpio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My "ask slashdot?" submission a couple of weeks ago for discussion on Xfree86 alternatives was rejected, and now there's this one based on a specific alternative. I've never had a story accepted. Oh well, no one loves me :(

    Chris

  5. Re:Identities of Slashdot trollers discovered. by shaitand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nice, a slashdot hitlist.