[Xorg] DRI merging

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:32:55PM +0200, Peter Postmus wrote:
> Please note, I'm no expert in this field and I don't know if such an approach
> would even be possible on the X.org or xserver X servers (that name
> definitely needs to be changed ;)),

It certainly needs a change. If you want to refer to what's commonly
known as 'the fd.o xserver', please use KDrive: that's the name of the
DDX that most people use under xserver.

> without changing the design too much. But
> I do agree with John Smirl that, if Linux won't have a comparable GUI to
> Windows Longhorn by the time it's released, many users that have converted
> from Windows to Linux in the past, will convert to Longhorn again. I also
> think compatibility with other UNIX-like OS's should be preserved, but it
> sounds like this Longhorn-style approach could make that possible as well.

Sure, that's a good idea; one of my main points in all this is that a
GL-based X server is not an anathema to Linux's desktop problems. More
work is needed on the desktop front (D-BUS, HAL, Project Utopia, et al)
before Linux can become a competitor on the next-generation desktop
front: it's not all about the windowing system.

Which isn't to say that this work shouldn't be done. But this point, and
the fact that old hardware is incredibly abundant, needs to be kept in
mind as well.

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Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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