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Re: Terminology - Test vs ???


/ "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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