Re: About the future of X (Windows)

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Well afaik a part (no idea how large/small) of this disagreement is the
wish by some to use technologies such as libxml for X. As such I feel
that GNOME should come out in support for the forces who wish to move X
forward by using existing infrastructure, like libxml, since it will
probably quicken development and increase opportunities for integration.

If you want to move the world forward you need to dare rock the boat
once in a while, the moment you stop daring to do that then your
stagnating and your end is at hand.

Christian 

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 20:27, Andy Tai wrote:
> Shouldn't GNOME stay out of it as much as possible,
> that GNOME and competitors (like KDE) both depend on
> X11 and GNOME's involvement  may make matter massier. 
> Unless, unless,  GNOME and KDE touch base first, both
> being the users of XFree86, both sharing the interests
> of having a stable base for free software GUI systems,
> and a coordinated approach between KDE and GNOME is
> taken in regard to the XFree86 issues. If both KDE and
> GNOME desire XFree86 to stay unified, for example, the
> political pressure should make XFree86 people think
> twice about forking.  
> 
> --- Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> >   Speaking strictly personally...
> > 
> >   The XFree86 Board of Directors made public the
> > fact that a split
> > of the X Windows software we are using for GNOME on
> > most plateforms
> > is likely to take place [1]. Of course the success
> > of the GNOME project
> > is tied to the availability of a well maintained X
> > code base, and an
> > organization as supportive as possible of the needs
> > for desktop deployment.
> >   I am not an X expert, but what I heard from
> > various parties is
> > that like in the gcc/egcs fork such a split might be
> > needed to speed up
> > the developments which are needed for GNOME and
> > other projects and 
> > possibly get a more open process for maintaining the
> > X code base. So
> > it seems it might be a good thing actually. However
> > I think the foundation
> > membership should have the opportunity to voice
> > concern or support on this
> > issue before the board makes any statement on this.
> > So if you have
> > strong opinion about this I think this is the right
> > time to argue
> > publicly about it :-)
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > [1]
> >
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000001.html
> > 
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