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Y: A Successor to the X Window System
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."
In the end, nobody has to use it, and it's a good idea and I would love to see it eventually part of the distros
BUT it's never going to catch on called 'Y'!
A) it doesn't sound cool, and
B) its too much like the yahoo IM service Y!
puts ("Python r0cks\n");
What the hell is wrong with middleclick? It seems to work in allmost all of the apps I use.
And the one app that doesn't accept this is rdesktop, which is understandable.
Not trying to start a flamewar but I never had a problem with pasting in x.
The way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher value them who think alike than those who think differently
Just looked, and -- tragically -- the code is GPLed. So long as it has a viral, anti-commercial license, this code will not gain the support of commercial software vendors, and will not be able to make the inroads that X has under the MIT license. If the author wants it to go anywhere besides Linux (if it even becomes popular there), he must reconsider the licensing of the code.
I might add, by the way, that the GPL will also prevent commercial developers from programming for the environment. It appears that all of the required libraries, etc. are GPLed, so that any program created for the environment must likewise be GPLed. Few programmers can afford to write a serious application without having some means of being rewarded financially for their work. Again, the license must be changed or the project, regardless of its merits, is destined to go nowhere.