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new windowing systemnew windowing systemPosted Jul 10, 2009 11:21 UTC (Fri) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)Parent article: Google Chrome OS and the community
In the context of a press release, I took the phrase new windowing system to mean something more like new window manager than outright replacing X11. I'd suggest changing the article to put windowing system in quotation marks: in the context of LWN, I'd take windowing system to mean what the X Window System is, and new windowing system to mean something like Berlin/Fresco or Qtopia.
(The second paragraph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system is evidence of window-manager-like uses of the term.)
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new windowing system Posted Jul 16, 2009 14:26 UTC (Thu) by ariveira (guest, #57833) [Link]
Maybe they "just" will be the first users of Wayland http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/wayland/ ?
new windowing system Posted Jul 16, 2009 19:26 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
It's a pity that Fresco (http://fresco.org/) didn't proceed further. It
was an interesting concept. Server side had loadable widget toolkits and clients used the toolkit over CORBA. Because the calls were high level i.e. few, performance isn't an issue in this case (even over network). All drawing was done using a scenegraph i.e. UI was fully transformable.
Y-windows (http://www.y-windows.org/) had later a similar "widgets on
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