Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubuntu Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <9fovtmF8gaU1@mid.individual.net> <4e9b8f0c$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1318886500 21124 84.45.235.129 (17 Oct 2011 21:21:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:21:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8929 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. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |