Every newcomers to X think that servers and clients are reversed because they are

[Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp]

Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2011 schrieb Paul Dufresne:
> The design decision that was made was to make the applications the
> clients, and the program that sits next to keyboard and monitor the
> server. And I admit that now this is a real server.
> But I pretend it was a bad choice.
>
> The question is what are the ressources you want to share?
> Now the ressources shared seems to be the keyboard, mouse and monitor.
>
> What I think the users want to use or share is the X applications.
>
> That's why I think that X would be more usefull if the order was reversed.
> Because then, the X server would sit there, waiting for client (that
> would be humans rather than programs), to connect and the ressources
> shared would be X applications.
>
> Why would someone want to share his monitor, keyboard an mouse on the net?
> That does not seems useful.

Oh, it's very useful. Ever tried to build a system with 32 distributed 
screens?

Nik