clarification requested: apparent termination of xrx project due to deletion of lbx from xorg

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:36:18PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> the first one says that LBX is deprecated.  however, has any
> replacement for LBX been written _before_ deprecating it? has any
> replacement been considered?

Yes -- SSH.

> the second one  says "xproxymngproto is no longer supported" due to
> certain libraries having been deleted from xorg (presumably lbx). that
> implies that the xrx project, the only way of embedding unix
> applications into web browsers, is, by inference, "no longer
> supported".

Yes.

> please can someone clarify that i have this right: that a particularly
> interesting and exciting line of possibilities for desktop
> development, hosted by the "free desktop organisation", has been
> terminated by the xorg developers.

Don't let us stop you from working on it.

Cheers,
Daniel
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