On Saturday 03 October 2009 11:11:32 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Didier Spaier wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation Alan. I just can't find any clear definition > > of "katamari" in Xorg's context, searching the wiki as well as this > > mailing list > > > > :-\ > > Sorry, it's what we call the X11R7.x releases in which we "roll up" a set > of individually released modules (the X server, client libraries, > protocols, fonts, etc - see the list in the first message in the thread) > into a larger release set. GNOME and KDE do similar things to build their > desktop environment releases out of each individual module release. > > It's the core set of packages we think make a usable and useful window > system, but which we assume you'll probably want a more complete desktop > environment sitting on top of. > > The term comes from a series of video games [1] - perhaps one of the most > exciting bits of information passed on at this year's X Developer's > Conference is that they are now available for the iPhone! 8-) [2] > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari > [2] Okay, so I'm a hopeless geek, which is why I spent my Friday > night converting libXv API docs into man pages and releasing > X.Org modules...
Now that's perfectly clear. Thanks! Didier _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg