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New X Proposal on Freedesktop.org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-for-the-techies dept.

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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  1. I don't understand the fascination with X by alex_ant · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  2. Do It Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If Pennington wants to make extensions to X
    then let him go through the existing X community
    and standards process. Gnome and/or Linux are
    only a relatively small percentage of X users.
    And for God sake don't let the GNOME/Gtk people
    start changing X without some oversight from
    people who *really* understand X. Remember,
    Gtk was started by a guy who "wanted to learn
    how to write a GUI". Yes, that's right, and boy
    does it show.

    Kent