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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. My thoughts by PhysicsScholar · · Score: 1, Troll

    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]?"

    Why the Microsoft ads on Slashdot of course!

    Oops, that was the answer to the last question ;-)

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    Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
  2. It looks nice... by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 1, Troll

    But people should code with an open, standard, portable GUI wrapper instead of writing directly to ANY API.

    Case in point: http://www.wxwindows.org. Simply write in the wxwindows wrapper, then simply compile it for something like Pico instead.

    However, X is so entrenched that it will take years, if ever, for pico to dethrone it. Until then, just use wrappers to keep the code portable.