On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:05:04PM -0700, Rick Warner wrote: > > Yes, X is part of the problem, but that is inherent in the rather aged > design of X. It is an event driven, *networked*, client-server > windowing system. MS Win is none of the above. X could be > streamlined, but then you give up one or more of the orignal design > goals. X is always polling input devices for events, it communicates > through the network stack, and the clients are disjunct from the server.
...and the networked-heart of X is a mixed blessing. It _can_ slow it down, but it also includes functionality that only comes through addons to Windows (Terminal Server, Citrix, etc.). Making an X connection (application) across a network is trivial compared to trying to get two networked Windows boxes talking and running each other's apps remotely. It's a matter of what you want to do. Still, Gnome (and to a lesser degree, KDE) is S L O W ... :-) FVWM is nice and fast, though! -- -- Len Philpot ><> -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://philpot.org/ -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alternate email) -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
