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Y: A Successor to the X Window System

Posted by michael on from the don't-know-your-own-limits dept.

impto writes "Whenever someone brings up the topic of replacing X, everyone always says that's nice, but where's the code? Well, Mark Thomas put his money where his mouth is and produced a replacement that maintains network transparency while adding many of the features that people desire from X such as alpha blending and a built-in toolkit. It still needs a bit of work to be as featureful as X but it's a fresh start that takes advantage of current technology and ideas. Read the paper here in PDF (1.7MB) or PS or grab the source and start hacking."

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  1. Yeah but... by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 3, Funny

    What will they do after they've finished with Y and Z, they'll have no more letters of the alphabet then. It'll be a disaster

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    1. Re:Yeah but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Following standard ASCII the next characters should be [, \ and ]. You've got to admit, "the opening bracket window system" has something to it, although I'm not quite sure what that something is exactly.

  2. So... by segfault7375 · · Score: 4, Funny

    UNIX desktop environments are a mess. The proliferation of incompatible and inconsistent user interface toolkits is now the primary factor in the failure of enterprises to adopt UNIX as a desktop solution.

    So what do we do to solve this mess of user interfaces? Let's create yet another one! I love the way that geeks think :-)

  3. Slashdot Prediction! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    30% - Zealots who laud that this a great feature of open source, as they have the choice to hack and choose.
    30% - Who say this is a setback to the standardization of getting open source onto the majority of desktops (Lusers don't want choice!)
    20% - Who post something witty, or copy various ??? Profit or ISR jokes
    10% - Who post goatse links
    5% - Who spout inane bullshit about god knows what
    5% - Who actually have something to say on the subject, and *gasp* have knowledge of what they are talking about.
    10% - Post comments showing their lack of mathematical ability.

  4. Y window system is fine, but... by revividus · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...wouldn't it be more in keeping with tradition to call it X++?

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    1. Re:Y window system is fine, but... by Orne · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know, I know!

      Instead of X-Plus-Plus, lets just shorten it to XP!

  5. The name.. by eniu!uine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some people don't like the name Y. I say hey, Y leaves us with Y Windows.. which is a good question.. why windows? Use Linux.

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  6. new name by lordcorusa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's call it Youvert! ;-)

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    1. Re:new name by satterth · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's not easy being green.

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  7. Y: The List by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For all you Slashbots out there, let's state the more obvious posts about this article...

    • "Y" do we need another windowing system?
    • "Y" not call it X++?
    • "Y" is (GTK/QT/motif/etc) not good enough?
    • "Y" listen to a college senior, when other, more "qualified", people have tried to tackle this problem?
    • "Y" make a list of possible responses to Y?

    Now that those comments are out of the way, let the other bad jokes commense!

  8. Re:Built in toolkit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have you ever tried to code with Motif?

    He worked on the UNIX version of Netscape. I'm sure he knows Motif quite well.