Ubuntu moving away from X

[Richard Pieri]

On Nov 7, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
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> "X Applications are terrible?" Really? OpenOffice, Firefox, Gimp, Thunderbird, etc. are terrible applications? I have to disagree.

None of these are X11 applications.  They are GTK applications.  Port GTK to Wayland and you would see no differences modulo how the GTK port was handled.


> An X compatibility layer doesn't work. It seems to work well enough for local applications, but Mac's X compatibility stinks for remote apps. A feature that I use all the time.

The term "compatibility layer" is a misnomer.  OS X does not have an X compatibility layer.  It has the genuine X.Org X server, the same X server that runs the Red Hat and Ubuntu desktops right now.  Thus, your comments are confusing to me.  How can X.Org running on Linux or FreeBSD be "good" while the exact same X server running on OS X "stinks" when it is the same thing?

I have a slew of X11 applications, native applications, that I use every day with the XQuartz, some locally, some remotely.  They look and act exactly the same on my Mac desktop as they do on my Red Hat desktop.  I run a bunch of Windows apps (games, really) using WINE and XQuartz and they run the same as they do on RHEL and Ubuntu.  What, then, "stinks" about Mac's X server?  Because I don't see it.

--Rich P.