Paul Davis escreveu: > The X Library API, let alone the X11 protocol itself are more stable > than any other comparable "graphics architecture" you can name. The Xlib > API has been stable for nearly 2 decades now, unless you want to include > extensions, which are almost never, ever the domain of a typical > application (over the years, they have primarily affected window > managers). > > The functionality you are referring to, I believe, has very little do > with the code of a graphics architecture (it may intersect a little with > issues related to openGL, compositing and WM support). Instead, it has > everything to do with GUI toolkits. The only reason there is no "stable > graphical architecture" for Linux is that there are at least two. And > there will continue to be at least two no matter what you, or I or > anybody else on this or any other mailing list says about it.
I think I was not so clear. Let me try to explain it again using other examples which we have in todays open source X server implementation. First, is the Multi-Pointer X server, which will need a complete reimplementation of the toolkit and also the WM [0]. Another is the input hotplug rework which kicks HAL and/or DBUS to tell when a device is active/inactive. Both works are already seated in Xorg upstream repository and soon will be available in Linux distros. Both are typical samples which I tried to explain before and impact in a constantly review/update of the Common Desktop Architecture. Thanks, [0] http://lwn.net/Articles/267672/ -- Tiago Vignatti _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
