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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by maxharris on Monday July 08, 2019 @11:11PM (#20388708)
That's cool! I didn't know that.

Perhaps people might be interested in porting Haiku's graphics system to Linux to replace X11?

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by waddlesplash on Monday July 08, 2019 @11:54PM (#20388896)
Probably not. The entire reason that the remote-drawing works is that the draw calls are passed through all the way up from the widgets and controls layer; for apps that don't use those (e.g. Qt apps, etc.) it's just a dumber VNC (we could make it less dumb, but, a little starved for time right now.) So then you would be porting the entire Haiku toolkit to Linux ... and at that point why not just use Haiku? We have our own kernel for a reason :)
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