[rescue] "bloated pig X11"

Andrew Jones andrew at jones.ec
Thu Aug 9 09:47:25 CDT 2012


On 08/08/12 22:27, David Griffith wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised you of all people didn't mention the
>> OpenWindows/X11-NeWS merge at this point.
>
> You just reminded me of something. With the current talk about replacing
> X11 with something better, I was wondering why there doesn't seem to be
> talk about reintroducing something similar to NeWS / Display Postscript.
> Wayland is interesting, but as far as I'm concerned, it's a non-starter
> as long as they keep network transparency out of the spec.
>

No one wrote NeWS applications when it was current.
Adobe makes new NeWS/DPS implementations problematic.


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