Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [wx-dev] Linux GUI considerations

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:44:00PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > From: Julian Smart
> > I would certainly be keen to encourage better uptake of Linux through
> > use of wxWindows, but I have to take issue with the argument that
> > a framebuffer-based approach is going to help this. XFree86 has had years
> > of development and tweaking. Are you really saying that we could
> > write a better X11 replacement? Even if we did and managed to write
> > a 3rd super-duper desktop environment with all the required little apps,
> > we'd face a huge struggle in persuading people to use our particular
> > environment instead of X11.
> > 
> XFree86 has done a tremendous amount of effort. Still large part of this
> is simply spent in the wrong places. Instead of keeping writing directly
> to the hardware they should concentrate in building kernel drivers,
> maybe separate maybe together with the framebuffer people. Currently it

Well, remember that X don't run on just Linux, so i guess they are
afraid of duplicating the work, having to rewrite the driver for each OS
they run on. And as a X driver writer, i understand that concern.

Friendly,

Sven Luther