Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ...
by Someone on Saturday September 05, 2015 @05:30PM
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"On desktop Linux, it's obvious that, say, a web browser and a PDF viewer should be different applications"
Not completely obvious. The web browser could use the PDF viewer to render PDF and/or the PDF viewer could use the web browser to run JavaScript embedded in a PDF file (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html). Both examples are similar to your find|grep example.
Yes, that typically would be done by reusing libraries, not by starting processes, but modern browsers run a separate process per tab and some run flash in a separate process. Running a PDF viewer in a separate process would be a logical extension.
Not completely obvious. The web browser could use the PDF viewer to render PDF and/or the PDF viewer could use the web browser to run JavaScript embedded in a PDF file (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html). Both examples are similar to your find|grep example.
Yes, that typically would be done by reusing libraries, not by starting processes, but modern browsers run a separate process per tab and some run flash in a separate process. Running a PDF viewer in a separate process would be a logical extension.