[Xorg] Server side widgets

[Ely Levy]

Hey,
latly I saw quite a few flame wars about server side widgets,
People from projects like y-windows and onyx claim for performance
improvments and nicer cleaner implementations,
as well as that X doesn't support it from the plain reason it is old.
I got the impression it was a design descision, which lead to many
diffrent tool kits.

My question is, why did X chose not to use server side widgets (if it was
ever concidered)?

and what other advantages/disadvatages it has?

This is really not ment as a flame question, just honest will to know:)


Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel