That is wrong. This is what low-level hackers want.
What people want is, at user level:
- A nice flashy looking GUI used by all applications
- More or less working inter-application communications (dnd, c/p)
- Programs, programs, and programs
and at programmer level:
- Powerful widgets with everything already included (i18n, threading,
layout, high-level copy/paste, drag-n-drop, ...)
Other considerations like speed, resources taken or remote access are
secondary.
The success of Netscape Communicator, Enlightenment or Kde proves
that.
All that is completely outside the scope of the kernel[1].
This does not mean that something like kgi is good or bad. And it is
true that X is humungus, monolithic and has its problems. But let's
not have a wrong grip on the reality. X more or less does its job.
OG.
[1] Some things like garbage-collecting sysv-like possibly distributed
IPCs may help though.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu