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Re: Terminology - Test vs ???
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Terminology - Test vs ???
- From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Date: 19 Oct 2001 20:27:30 +0200
- Cc: "Bang, Steinar" <Steinar dot bang at tandbergtv dot com>,"Cygwin-XFree" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- References: <NHEELHJHHFKPMAEAFMFCKEBDCKAA.huntharo@msu.edu>
/ "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
| Steinar,
|
| > Personally, I'd rather not see an integrated window
| > manager. I'd perfer not bloating the .exe for the
| > case of the server being used against a display
| > manager (which is my typical case).
|
| I don't want the window manager integrated either, because it increases the
| complexity of the Windows and X message pumps to the point that very few
| people will be able to understand what is going on. I prefer keeping window
| manager function in a separate window manager application.
|
| > ...and sound.
|
| Right, but that isn't really a deficiency of Cygwin/XFree86; rather, it is a
| general deficiency of the X Window System protocol in that they left sound
| out of the protocol.
And doesn't it "increase[s] the complexity of the Windows and X
message pumps to the point that very few people will be able to
understand what is going on." [citate from above]
;-)
/Andy
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