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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anything is better than X

[Anonymous Coward]

that's right kids, ANYTHING. let's have it.

My thoughts

[PhysicsScholar]

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 ;-)

It looks nice...

[SexyKellyOsbourne]

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.

Wow

[PhysicsScholar]

Their server got hit pretty hard, but I found a link to the Google cached version:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:BZcu3-3HkaYC: www.picogui.org/+i%27m+looking+at+gay+porno!&hl=en &ie=UTF-8

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