Can anybody provide some more details on what would be required to finish this work of getting XQuartz off libXplugin? I would love to help, if I can.
Thanks, John > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Filhol Alain <fil...@ill.eu> > Subject: Re: Is XQuartz development abandoned? > Date: August 30, 2018 at 2:51:01 PM PDT > To: x11-us...@lists.apple.com > Reply-To: fil...@ill.fr > > Here the answer I got from Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia on 02 Feb 2017. > I think we can be real pessimistic concerning X11 on macOS. > >> [AF] A question about slow dialogues with OpenMotif and XQuartz (much slower >> than with Linux). >> >> [JHS] <jerem...@freedesktop.org <mailto:jerem...@freedesktop.org>> >> There is a known issue there, I believe with Yosemite and newer versions of >> macOS (maybe Mavericks+, maybe ElCap+, I forget exactly). The issue is >> below us in CoreGraphics and won't really be fixed on Apple's side as doing >> so would fix this case but cause bad performance penalties for every single >> other case out there. The real solution is to get XQuartz off of libXplugin >> and start using more modern macOS APIs (eg: finishing up libxcwm), but >> there's not really anyone actively working on that right now. >> >> [AF] Are you the only one involved in XQuartz developments ? >> >> [JHS] Yes, and I spend significantly less than 1% of my time on it ... >> barely enough to just pull in upstream changes, build, and ship. >> >> [AF] [...] but people are reluctant in using them on Macintoshes because of >> that problem of slowness. >> >> [JHS] If you're interested in working on the replacement, I can point you in >> the right direction. It's maybe 60% done ... all by a group of college >> seniors at PSU. >> >> --Jeremy > > > Alain
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