Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))

Jan Hudec
2002-10-08T08:15:39Z

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:22:41PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 07 October 2002 15:56, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > [the mouse] will still stall everytime the mouse crosses the window border IF the
> > application has specified "enter/leave" event notification. This requires the
> > application to be swapped in to recieve the event. The only fix is locking
> > the application/X libraries into memory.
>
> That one could be punted with an hourglass cursor, until the events start flowing.
> Well. Not sure how much this has to do with the kernel...

Nothing. It's X. And it will take another X protocol extension (so it
will suck yet more).

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