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

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:10 -0400, Patrick O'Donnell wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:25:43PM +0300, Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) wrote:
> >> But I'm not talking about applications built on the top of almost-core X
> >> protocol, like redbaron. No one does this today. Get real and useful
> >> applications like recent compositor managers or a browser and come tell me
> >> about interoperability with old servers :)

I wonder what RHEL4 is shipping.

% brew latest-pkg dist-4E-U9 firefox xorg-x11 | awk '{ print $1 }'
Build
----------------------------------------
firefox-3.6.7-3.el4
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.63
%

5½ year old server, one month old application.

But feel free to move the goalposts again by saying "firefox doesn't
count".

> It's kinda sad that "compositor managers or a browser" are propounded
> as the paragons of "real and useful applications".

The browser's been the only real application for a good ten years at
least.  I realize this is a wild generalization but it's also completely
true.

- ajax
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