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Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 16:13 UTC (Sat) by hitmark (guest, #34609)
In reply to: Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland by cmorgan
Parent article: Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

The curse of the media player?

Seems like all of it hankers back to trying to recreate winamp on *nix...


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Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 16:33 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Actually it's just a bunch of dedicated hackers who have spent decades of effort trying to improve X Windows and related systems only to realize the best approach is to try to do something different.

Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 18:54 UTC (Sat) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link]

Highly relevant, from this week's edition: http://lwn.net/Articles/536487/

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