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Re: Wayland & Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?



Camaleón:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:33:56 +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote:
>> 2010/11/9 Camaleón
>> 
>> I myself would prefer to keep X11
> 
> I see not good technical reason for introducing the change. At least not 
> nowadays.

I am not an X window programmer (don't even know C), but my impression
is that X has quite a few design warts that many people would love to
get rid of. And you cannot really blame X for that, it's more than
25 years old and was designed at a time where GUIs were still quite
uncommon.

I cannot judge whether Wayland is in any way better, though.

> And that is one of the reasons I always fear "business decisions" (we 
> should not forget that Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu) because 
> "business decisions" can be founded on market/marketing issues and not 
> technicalities and the latter are the only ones that should lead to these 
> kind of changes.

As a Debian user, you shouldn't forget political reasons as an important
impetus for change. ;-)

J.
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