Re: Next step

[John M. <tt...@te...>]

I really think that this more of a step side-ways then forward, we need
to drop X. Why not set out to make a windowing system that can run ontop
of GFX or KGI?. X is old and should be shot. We need a new windowing system
that doesn't need a nasty hack that breaks the protocol to support things
like alpha blending and AA-fonts. Who cares about supporting legacy 
X applications? The future market is only going to be concerned with gnome
and kde. gtk and qt could quickly be ported over to this new system. 
X is old and can't be extended in a portable manner. I know I am rambling
but I have been waiting for someone to start up a new project that might
actually accomplish something usable sooner then berlin can. A new protocol
that is aimed at today's graphics market, but keeps the future open is what
is needed. Not another implementation of something that should be left to die.
X was great, buts its out lived its usefullness.
What do you think?

John

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:58:32AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> 
>     I wanted to post a message about the new direction for my work is
> going to take place. As many know my goals have been to rework the console
> layer by reworking  the fbdev layer and using the input api. Yes it is not
> the most exciting project so I have had a slow development cycle. 
>     The reason I started this project was to lay the foundations for a new
> infra structure for X windows and to fix the many problems with X and the
> console system. It would allow the devleopement of smaller leaner X servers. 
> I still like to do this. 
>     Last night I meet with rasterman and discussed several issues about X
> and linux with him. In the discussion I realized that I need to work at a
> faster pace to help further the developement of linux as a graphical UNIX
> system. So the console project and the work beind it will be merging with
> the GFX project. Another project which I started to provide a open source  
> X server besides XFree86. XFree86 was not designed with linux in mind and
> it as many people have felt has failed the linux community. So I like to 
> announce the start of the linux GFX project which we will begain work on a 
> new X server written from scratch. I plan to continue the work of the
> console project. I'm just combining it with gfX server. Especially since
> the X server input core will be written completely around the input api.  
> I will shortly send a message to the kernel mailing list. Thank you.
> 
> 
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