LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 8, 2010 16:30 UTC (Mon) by scripter (subscriber, #2654)
In reply to: LPC: Life after X by marcH
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

When Keith said applications, I think he meant purpose-built devices. It's more clear in context. We can substitute as follows:

"how many [of the mobile systems, media devices, and in-vehicle embedded systems] care about [graphical] network transparency...?"

As for me, I'm not sure that I need the Android calendar app to be able to display its output on a remote display via X11 protocol or something similar. Instead, I'd load my google calendar elsewhere.

I don't need the Android music player to be able to display elsewhere, because I'd simply load my music collection elsewhere using a separate device, separate application, and separate network protocol.

LPC: Life after X

Posted Nov 9, 2010 21:57 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

you absolutly do want the ability to remote the display from an android device.

think about the movies and TV programs that allow a person to flick the display from a hand-held device to a wall-size screen. If that's not an example of people wanting network transparent display capibilities, even on portable devices I don't know what is.