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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."
... someone proposes new X, I would be rich man.
I seem to be seeing a new X logo as well from the slashdot page:
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It's so simple and plain. It just might work!
The obvious solution to your problem is to buy 200-300 19" "monitors" (we're actually talking about LCDs, right?) and donate one or two to any X hacker you can find. Your problem should be documented with numerous workarounds and possibly fixes within a couple months.
Heh. For a moment there, I thought you meant FreeDesktop.org's X would be getting Scale2x support. :P
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--Aristotle
From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)
I would like to propose that all GUI designers eschew anything actually resembling visible display of an interface, and simply ship a library, and a loose 'conceptual' discussion of what effects the display should provoke, according to a psychological or astrological model of the user's personality (Jungian, Freudian, or Dosteyevskian), their latitutude and longitude, and blood sugar levels. It should be completely up to the user to specify a display (I believe POSEUR is addressing the shipment of design-free GUI design for user-transparent configuration: open, scalable, and extensible, the problem is almost PN complete). Sample KIT (using a paradigm of an application which extracts semantic nets from French Literature in Translation):
1. Parameters: none /Utopia/, and a well-fingered /Neuromancer/
2. Two thick libraries, with enforced single-entry SlowRead(). and a single NoExit() for enforced modularity.
3. Copy of More's
4. One copy of Italian Vogue Summer collection '82
5. Default Interface Processor (DIP) to generate a user-configurable default interface upon which one can generate proposed target 'research' examples.
6. One copy of USA Today and Time (tm) magazine to be used for sample non-default graphical layout guidelines.
+ XYmorph (tm): a new easy-to-use open extensible and scalable system for randomly per/mutating user interfaces. A manifestation of the concept of both stimulated healling and scatter-brain i/o in order to most quickly reach suboptimal interface design with the least amount of effort on the part of the designer or the user.
+ Quagmire: a CD-rom collection of over 4 quadrillion possible interfaces generated for a Unix(tm) open, extensible, and scalable graphical C-shell-feel-good-alike system. Meets ANSI, K&R, A&P, S&H
+ and other stamped standards in continental US.
+ boraX: a user-configurable interface cleanser. Open, extensible, and scalable, it removes all traces of design constraint from simple structured systems and creates flat-design mazelike idio(syncratic/pathic/syncretic) systems of fresh and clean code.
Sample concept discussion:
The pointer (I hesitate to use such a loaded word: for users who object to object orientation and simplistic Western-philosophy views of dichotomatic (not diatomaceous or deciduous, though wooden feelings might be appropriate for Environmentally friendly X displays) subject/object distinctions might prefer to discuss 'object compliment', or even 'compliment' (as in Complimentary beverage or Complimentary sugar-coated dry-roasted 100% genuine Virgina grown goober peas just the way they grew them in olden times) in order to provoke an awareness and create a more extensible scalable and transparent user environment for those who aren't really worried about domain/range distinctions in disjunctive noun mappings) should respond to a click (which is to say a simple tap, of varying duration depending upon the physical capabilities and inclinations of those who might be inclined to acutally depress the open, extensible, and scalable button on a mouse (though those of us who object to laboratory research mechanomorphization of living entities prefer to call 'mice' 'clickers', thus preserving the dignity of what we all must recognize is part of a larger Gaiaen web of life (which is, I must remark, open, scalable, and extensible, life that is, not the mouse) and metonymically convolving form and function into the open, scalable and extensible nomenclature of X).
XBorges.
One longs for the day when the responsibility of programming computers falls squarely on the shoulders of the users, where it belongs; they are provided with a set of infinitely configurable instruction codes, on an open, extensible, and scalable n-bit bus, and their task before setting upo
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