[Open-graphics] Linux kernel graphics subsystem changes

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:39:15 +0800
"Rogelio Serrano" <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/28/07, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> > But these days it is very hard to find anyone who actually
> > knows X11....
> 
> Ok if you have seen the freedesktop pages somebody is thinking of
> moving x11 to dbus. now thats totally unacceptable.

Any url with that? 
But even then, i wouldn't believe it. Who ever has said that
has no understanding whatsoever what X11 and what D-Bus is.
Both are in their needs and implementations quite ortogonal.

 
> besides, the issue is not x11 at all. its about the the linux graphics
> subsystem. and that dbus is actually not not a good example of linux
> people thinking accross layers and modularization.

No, actually, D-Bus is a good example of modularization, layering
and problem decomposition. If X11 would have been a purely local
protocol with no network support whatsoever, D-Bus would be actually
a good design. It incooperates a standardized, more or less plattform
independed communication path with both polling and events,
object abstractions, a way to extend the functionallity of D-Bus
and last but not least a standard set of objects that can be relied on.
It is just that D-Bus works against the principles of X11.


			Attila Kinali

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