Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:28:18 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@vk2pj.dyndns.org> To: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither X? Message-ID: <20090519022817.GB97109@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20090516073016.414a683b@sorrow.ashke.com> References: <20090515232350.GH57001@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1242433708.5638.26.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090516110938.GA16230@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20090516073016.414a683b@sorrow.ashke.com>
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--GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-May-16 07:30:16 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote: >On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:09:38 +1000 >Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: >> I am not saying that. I am saying that the Xorg project needs to stop >> breaking existing functionality and unnecessarily changing existing >> behaviour. Things like inverting the sense of "DontZap" or making the >> default screen blank with no cursor have no benefit and just waste >> people's time. > >That hs been discussed a number of times on various mailing lists and >forums. But, AFAIR, not on any relevant FreeBSD lists. As someone who wants to _use_ X11 on FreeBSD, I should not need to follow the Xorg mailing lists to learn about what has been broken in the latest release. There are limits to how many different mailing lists I can follow... >> project did some regression testing though > >They do. Probably much more than you realize. As an Xorg user, all I can say is that it doesn't show. As I have previously said, the sort of basic problems that are showing up with X.org 7.3 and 7.4 were not apparent with XFree86 or Xorg 6.x. --=20 Peter Jeremy --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoSGUEACgkQ/opHv/APuIfRUQCfcGtngRbpRKzJMN6BAbtHsY00 SPYAoI/QGj5hionxLm/dqr1TDve8NMgx =pw3l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7--
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