Re: time for a flamewar, or ... what about grdb

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> 	* Remote applications are barely the rule these days.

Really. Maybe for you personally, but if gnome cant do remote displays
then to say the least its going to be an uninteresting footnote in the
history of thinclient computing

> 	* True network transparency is non-existant anyways, as you
>           wont be sharing the file systems across applications running
>           in two computers.

Wrong. I do that all the time

> 	* The assumptions X made about the computing environment (the
> 	  way networks and workstations are used) never quite
> 	  cristalized and it is definetly not the common usage in
> 	  todays computing environment.

Unfortunately they assumptions some gnome people make (1280x1024 screen,
3 button mouse, user doesnt want keyboard shortcuts, 256Mb of ram, PII
processor) are poor ones too.

> So, yes, it is unfortunate, but if anything X resources are just a
> suboptimal solution for a very tiny problem.  On top of being a
> suboptimal solution for a non-existing problem, X resources introduce
> a set of broken ideas.  The "Unix Haters Book" goes into a hilarious
> and sad look at X resources. 

Mostly wrongly. Thats not so say that x resources are the perfect solution
although they certainly blow the configuration gtk has currently into
tiny little pieces. Gconf based configuration looks a lot more hopeful.

Alan