The Power of X

Posted by michael on Thursday August 26, 2004 @01:25AM from the name-that-you-want-to-touch,-but-you-musn't-touch! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The license changes in the last version of Xfree86 have caused many distributions to reject the project in favor of the forked X.Org X server. As X.Org prepares to release the second version of the X.Org "monolithic" X Server (dubbed version 6.8), Ars Technica investigates the future of the X platform, as cooperation between X.Org and projects like GNOME and KDE begin to take take hold at freedesktop.org. Already host to an impressive array of projects, it appears that freedesktop.org will become the hub in which other Free Desktop projects can collaborate. Daniel Stone, release manager for freedesktop.org, gets into the details on how it's all going to work, in conjunction with freedesktop.org's upcoming platform release."

2 of 410 comments (clear)

Resolution limit by cmaxx · 2004-08-26 04:38 · Score: 1, Troll

Is anyone fixing the fundamental resolution limit in the protocol?

--
...an Englishman in London.
Re:Whose task is copy&paste by Simon · 2004-08-26 06:30 · Score: 1, Troll

You save to a file in app A and then open it in app B. Honestly, where's the attraction in having your data floating about in a clipboard like some etherial juggling act?

The attraction is that a clipboard is about a BILLION times faster and easier to use than juggling files, if all you want to do is move something from app A to app B.
I can't believe this kind of stuff needs to be explained to people/geeks. WHAT PLANET ARE YOU PEOPLE FROM?!?
--
Simon