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KDE and Canonical Developers Disagree Over Display Server
sfcrazy (1542989) writes "Robert Ancell, a Canonical software engineer, wrote a blog titled 'Why the display server doesn't matter', arguing that: 'Display servers are the component in the display stack that seems to hog a lot of the limelight. I think this is a bit of a mistake, as it’s actually probably the least important component, at least to a user.' KDE developers, who do have long experience with Qt (something Canonical is moving towards for its mobile ambitions), have refuted Bob's claims and said that display server does matter."
NOTHING to do with Canonical at all.
Yet there is Mark Shuttleworth, replying the same day to this supposedly "personal" blog with:
It was amazing to me that competitors would take potshots at the fantastic free software work of the Mir team
But hey... that's Google+, not ubuntu.com or whatever, so that's got nothing to do with Canonical either. Right?
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
> X.org is not "feature complete" in any meaningful sense. It is incapable of doing the kind of GPU-accelerated, alpha-blended compositing
It's fascinating what the eggheads decide to fixate on. This is really where the problem starts. Instead of focusing on practical features, you're fixating on the most trivial sort of nonsense and eye candy possible. Most normal people ignore that stuff or turn it off completely.
It's nice that you are finally noticing these things only about 15 years since the Englightement window manager was created but some of us actually have work to do.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Single digit market share really isn't "hugely successful". MacOS based on Unix really isn't that much more successful than MacOS NOT based on Unix. Whatever "success" this alleged Unix has had really has nothing to do with it's Unix-ness. What meagre success it has had has been being tied to a well established brand name that's about as far away from Unix as you can get.
What's the point of a "successful Linux" if it abandons all of the useful design ideas of Unix?
At best, something like that is redundant. You can go somewhere else and buy that if you really want that. There's no need to pervert someone else's platform.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.