Re: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Good point Alexander.

On a side note: Why is it that XDarwin has so many people contributing 
code and features (they seem to have an OpenGL-passthrough system now, 
which is pretty amazing), while Cygwin/XFree86 has so few contributors? 
 This seems contradictory because Windows is on 95% of desktops while 
Mac OS X is only on < 1% (~20% of Apple's 5% market share are running 
Mac OS X).

That question will probably always baffle me.

Harold

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Mlarcvaernas wrote:
>
>
> > I think that a Rootless mode for the Xserver right now
> > is one of the most important and crucial features
> > needed. For the Xserver to be used in a way that is
> > convenient for many users, the option to have X
> > applications displayed on the main Windows desktop is
> > pretty important. Of course the current Root mode
> > should also be available as well, since it also has
> > uses. The new rootless mode should be one of the top priorities.
>
> The rootless modes already has a high priority. But it is also a very complex
> problem and unless someone with _very_ much sparetime and good programming
> skills starts working on it, it will take a long time to finish it.
>
> bye
>     ago