From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Re: [wx-dev] Linux GUI considerations Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:13:19 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030205201318.GA1146@iliana> References: <3E403C75.2DBCC9F8@bluewin.ch> <3E416980.2B2F85@bluewin.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.254] helo=mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18gVvL-0006DV-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:13:35 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E416980.2B2F85@bluewin.ch> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Otto Wyss Cc: wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com