XFree86 Core Team Disbands

mumumu was among the many to write with this news: "XFree86's release engineer David Dawes has announced that "a majority of the XFree86 core team has voted in favour of my proposal to disband the core team". XFree86's News Headline has a short message about it. Why, all of a sudden? What is the successor of the XFree86? Xouvert? freedesktop.org?"

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Jesus.....Thank God.

[Bowie J. Poag]

From what little i've heard over the past few months, the XFree core team had become something of an elitist boys-club, completely and totally closed to the idea of accepting any outside code/ideas. Fuck that shit.. There were people who wanted write access to CVS, and HAD perfectly working code, and who were refused outright by that sad sack of pricks.

Re:Is that why...

[Billly Gates]

Why can't hardware makers write optimize drivers with it as easy as WIndows or MacOSX?

"Well, X *is* the graphics library, and it's fast, which is all you can really ask of a graphics library. So it *is* the fault of the window manager or DE. On my machine, KDE is about as fast as WinXP (except for some apps that haven't been well optimized for display performance, like Konqueror), while GNOME, Mozilla, and OpenOffice are dog-slow. If they both are using the same X, why does KDE run fast while the others don't? Start up Qt designer and abuse the UI. Try resizing with the resize bump in the corner. Try moving windows over it. Qt Designer has a complex UI with lots of widgets. But it performs just as fast as the best Windows apps. That's why X can't be the problem! Maybe its X's fault for not making it easier to write fast apps, but that's different from saying that X is slow."

Funny on Windows QT apps do not have this problem. Why is that?

"Let me guess. You're not a programmer, right? An extension is not a "hack." An extension is a way of extending a codebase to support a feature that was not concieved when it was originally written. An extension is a clean way to extend a codebase's functionality while preserving compatibility. A hack is entirely different.
"

I do not call mysel fan experienced programmer but why does X need a whole new bloated server moduel for true type fonts that takes up to 8 megs of ram? The original mac had true type fonts since 84 with 128k of ram.

I am not going to get too involved in the flamewar here but I have used Linux since 97 and Xf86 sucks on earlier pc's. You just notice it less today.

Whats wrong with a new X server written from scratch that is object oriented and designed to be modular? X can run on pda's easily. Why can't XF86? The Unix Haters Manual mentions X in quite alot of details.