Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:25:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: reg@shale.csir.co.za (Jeremy Lea) Cc: eagle@phc.igs.net, tlambert@primenet.com, asmodai@wxs.nl, brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed GUI toolkit? Message-ID: <199903072325.QAA23208@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990307232529.B47536@shale.csir.co.za> from "Jeremy Lea" at Mar 7, 99 11:25:29 pm
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I want to respond more in depth to this thread, so I've held back; but I need to ask a clarifying question, and then make a comment on track with my previously stated general thesis: > I think the idea of an XML based toolkit, with style sheets, has a lot > of merit. How does this interact with the recent patent issued to Microsoft regarding style sheets? Specifically, have you obtained a license to use that patent yet? If not, then anything involving style sheets is pretty much a wasted effort, at this point. > To stick my neck out into an area where I'm not an expert... My view of > the future of GUIs on Unix is that X windows will be split into two > parts: a display driver (which provides direct hardware access + > OpenGL), and might be a kernel module, and a X server process (with GLX) > which uses that display driver. However, other native applications > could have direct access to the display driver. These might include an > X server aware window manager, 3D accelarated games and an XML/HTML > layout engine. This is almost right. However, I think the future doesn't have X in it at all. X is a huge behemoth. It is too large. an X server has to have too much in the way of resources for it to be useful. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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