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The monoculture of meritocracyThe monoculture of meritocracyPosted Jan 10, 2013 19:42 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: The monoculture of meritocracy by alankila Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD
Missing features in abstractions: definitely true for Xlib.
I worked with a project a long time ago that ran on Solaris. It was nifty, and when the X server shut down for any reason (crash, disconnect, shutdown) the application just kept running and you could just go back to the application's command terminal and type "display :0.0" and it would put the GUI right back where it had been. You could put copies of the GUI on as many displays as you liked.
Try doing THAT with GTK.
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The monoculture of meritocracy Posted Jan 10, 2013 20:20 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Indeed, Emacs can do this today (it's how I normally use it). But don't try doing that with Gtk, indeed: it'll coredump.
There's an open bug about this.
It's eleven years old.
which is unfortunate Posted Jan 10, 2013 21:47 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
That is what is annoying me so much with many criticisms related to X: in fact in many case, they should be directed towards the toolkits not against X..
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