Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:41:49 -0600 yaro@marupa.net wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 04:24:46 AM Nick Boyce wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:20:24 -0600 yaro@marupa.net wrote:
> > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 09:38:47 PM Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wayland is coming.
> > >
> > > I welcome the change. X11 needs to be retired.
[...]
> > but won't X's ability to carry display traffic from one
> > machine to another be sorely missed by some people ?
[...]
> I personally don't see why that feature is very important. Maybe some
> people really like it, but I see that as one of the cruft features of
> X11 that has badly needed to be taken out.
Well .. I've always thought it's a cool feature, to be able to run a
program on one machine that displays its window(s) on a different
machine - but I admit that over many years, in many different projects,
working for a variety of employers, I've never once had the use case for
that feature :)
> Definitely not worth the development man-hours to maintain to please
> a small minority where remote desktop is more efficient on the
> network.
I guess you're right there.
Cheers
Nick
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