Re: GNOME Summary, June 7-14

[ajlill ajlc waterloo on ca]

>>>>> "Havoc" == Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com> writes:


    Havoc> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 ajlill@ajlc.waterloo.on.ca wrote:
    >>  That's ok for Gnome/KDE apps, but i do most of my work with
    >> Xemacs and xterm, so I really need to do a more generic
    >> solution. Maybe I'll join XFree86...
    >> 

    Havoc> I think X.org is what you want - it's the standards body.

    Havoc> Unfortunately they seem a bit out of touch; they still seem
    Havoc> to think CDE and Motif are the wave of the future, and it's
    Havoc> basically a bunch of proprietary Unix vendors. Still, we'd
    Havoc> like to trickle any specs we come up with as far up the
    Havoc> standards tree as possible (Gnome/KDE standard is good,
    Havoc> X-wide standard is better).

I noticed. But XFree86 is one of the members, and they'll let anyone
willing to work on X join them. Kind of an indirect way of doing
it. Perhaps we need a Gnome/KDE representative in X.org to deal with
such things, but that sounds like a full-time job. This can't be the
only area were we've found the current X protocol/libraries lacking.
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