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Gosling: If I Designed a Window System Today...

Posted by michael on from the hindsight-is-20-20 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In his blog entry for the 10th August, James Gosling (finally) publishes a short paper he wrote in 2002 entitled 'Window System Design: If I had to do it over again in 2002'. His design is to make the window system do the absolute minimum and move all the work into the client."

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  1. Re:Wow comment on X by Sheetrock · · Score: 0, Troll
    No, but I'd bet you'd get to Gosling's destination faster by designing from the ground up a client/server with the speed/flexibility of Windows XP than you would by stripping out a thing at a time from X-Windows.

    The argument is more over method than situation. We all agree X is too bulky for the average user.

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  2. Re:Consistency by TeknoHog · · Score: 0, Troll
    Adding more layers like is now happening with X and GTK or one of the other packages, is one way of doing that.

    It's probably been said before, but turning GTK+ into an X extension instead of a client library would be great.

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