Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932562AbWEQOKk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 10:10:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932563AbWEQOKk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 10:10:40 -0400 Received: from alpha.uhasselt.be ([193.190.2.30]:50122 "EHLO alpha.uhasselt.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932562AbWEQOKj (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 10:10:39 -0400 Message-ID: <446B2EDE.7060000@lumumba.uhasselt.be> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:10:38 +0200 From: Panagiotis Issaris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: linux cbon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replacing X Window System ! References: <20060517123937.75295.qmail@web26605.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605171319.k4HDJwhv015404@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200605171319.k4HDJwhv015404@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 27 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Wed, 17 May 2006 14:39:37 +0200, linux cbon said: > > > >>If we have a new window system, shall all applications >>be rewritten ? >> >> > >No. /bin/cat and /bin/ls will survive unscathed. However, if you >have a graphical application, it will need reworking. That's a LOT >of code. > > Wouldn't porting GTK+ and Qt be enough for the majority of the graphical applications? With friendly regards, Takis - 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/