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Date: 18 Oct 2011 14:50:37 GMT
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In article <j7i694$kk4$1@localhost.localdomain>,
Martin Gregorie  <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:12:26 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> > On 10/16/2011 7:51 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> >> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> >>> Because we get a choice over the L&F. Everything uses X11, aka
> >>> X-windows:
> >>> thats the underlying display technology for all graphical displays on
> >>> UNIX/Linux
> >>
> >> OS X is a certified UNIX, and does not use X for its main window
> >> system.
> >> I don't know much about Android, but i suspect it does not use X.
> >>
> >> Less pedantically, mainstream Linux seems to be heading away from X
> >> too:
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
> > 
> > We will see.
> > 
> > I am a bit skeptical about that happen.
> >
> The lack of network transparency in Wayland would be a major showstopper 
> for me: my preferred way of working and of organising data and tasks 
> across a network more or less depends on this feature of X11.
> 
> That said, I'm uncertain how unusual this way of working appears to 
> others.
> 

Seems perfectly normal to me to have graphical applications running
on machine A and displaying output on machine B, and I also(?) am
not eager to replace X11 with something that didn't have this
"works across a network" functionality.  But I've noticed that
my ideas about a lot of computing-related things seem well out
of the current mainstream, so -- a data point, but perhaps not 
a very representative one.

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.