New X Proposal on Freedesktop.org

Bytal writes "Havoc Pennington (of Red Hat and GNOME fame) seems to have a very interesting entry in his blog on the development of a new extension to the venerable X server going on at freedesktop.org. More specifically it seems to provide for most things that people have clamoring for (alpha blending, flicker-free window compositing and switching, as well as even OpenGL integration) without altering the existing X protocol too much."

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I don't understand the fascination with X

[alex_ant]

Kill X and replace it with something simple, clean, extensible and lightweight. (All characteristics which X is not.) Then put a transparent X server on top of it for backwards compatibility. X is such a dinosaur, trying to extend it with all these modern features is like ricing up a Honda Civic.