lack of standardization on X11 (was Re: X Gesture Extension protocol - draft proposal v1)

[Alan Coopersmith]

Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) wrote:
> The whole point to create a consistent protocol is the life time that it will
> last. Right now I don't see any consistency between X applications that I'm
> building today with the ones we had in the last decade. I cannot run both in
> the same X server. I even doubt I can use today's X app in the upcoming 2 or
> 3 years server.

Then you have horribly broken your X server - we are still running 20 year old
apps on Xorg here, in modern GNOME & Compiz desktops alongside brand new apps.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System