X Window system on Handheld devices

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 07/16/11 06:43 PM, David Jackson wrote:
> Has the X.org organisation ever thought of promoting X.org for use by companies
> on thier handheld devices such as phones? 

You mean like back in the days when Jim Gettys was one of the leaders of
handhelds.org and  doing research at the Compaq/HP labs on the iPaq?
Yes, I think there might have been a bit of thinking, especially when they
hosted the X.org Developers Conference there - as hard as it is for some
people to believe we ever do any thinking here.

Or perhaps you mean the last couple of years, when Nokia's (now Intel's)
Meego developers have been one of the major contributors to X.Org.

> Years ago, in their infinite wisdom, X.org developers removed monochrome
> support and low colour support,

Nope, sadly, both are still there, though I think the mobile developers like
those on the Meego project wish we'd dump more code like that which just
bloats their embedded systems, since no one wants to browse the web or play
Angry Birds on 1, 4, or 8 bit screens.

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