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picoGUI: An X Alternative?
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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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?
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These are the people who have been fucking up Slashdot for years. Maybe it's time we give them a taste of their own medicine.
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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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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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These are the idiot trollers who have been spamming Slashdot with trolls and garbage for the past several years. Maybe it's time they get some payback.
Burdge, Jonathan - jlb@io.com
Casillas, Luis - casillas@stanford.edu
Corrigan, Barry - barry@bjcorrigan.fsnet.co.uk
Haberberger, George - ghaberbe@frontiernet.net
Johnson, Peter - shoeboy@adequacy.org
Lockwood, Scott - wsl3@attbi.com
Linwood, Rob - rcl@cs.csoft.net
Osborne, Michaell - osborm@yahoo.com
Sassaman, Esther - esther@antioch.edu
Stanton, Matt - matt@madeforchina.com
Stauffer, Marc - marc@ksac.com
Let these people know that abusing Slashdot isn't cool.
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 :(
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