Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932554AbWEQNqc (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 09:46:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932555AbWEQNqc (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 09:46:32 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:59540 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932554AbWEQNqb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 09:46:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=rADtVaJaMPVgGunSMPdf6pphJ/MEqT778W2IwKeVLduH9madAzg+Jvkh8ItPchKjiAd/JVHDnMnt3ceXbyjLqbwHmks40Cw2U8eww5Ea3LVZ6uEagIOWux4Kpqi/2gE9dc+rr/rbGeFcteSmchm+WrGNbGOcj2NHvDzMasRF53c= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:46:30 -0400 From: "Bob Copeland" To: "Lennart Sorensen" Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! Cc: "linux cbon" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060517132403.GB23933@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200605171218.k4HCIt4L013978@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060517123937.75295.qmail@web26605.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20060517132403.GB23933@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 26d41cdfbcd2637c Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 19 On 5/17/06, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:39:37PM +0200, linux cbon wrote: > > If we have a new window system, shall all applications > > be rewritten ? > > Unless you make your new system compatible with X, then all X > applications must be rewritten. True for things written directly with Xlib, but hardly anything new is written without a toolkit these days. E.g. someone could port GDK to the new windowing system of the week and all GTK+ applications would work. Though I won't disagree that the idea is pointless. Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/