Didier Spaier wrote: > Thanks for the explanation Alan. I just can't find any clear definition of > "katamari" in Xorg's context, searching the wiki as well as this mailing list > :-\
Sorry, it's what we call the X11R7.x releases in which we "roll up" a set of individually released modules (the X server, client libraries, protocols, fonts, etc - see the list in the first message in the thread) into a larger release set. GNOME and KDE do similar things to build their desktop environment releases out of each individual module release. It's the core set of packages we think make a usable and useful window system, but which we assume you'll probably want a more complete desktop environment sitting on top of. The term comes from a series of video games [1] - perhaps one of the most exciting bits of information passed on at this year's X Developer's Conference is that they are now available for the iPhone! 8-) [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari [2] Okay, so I'm a hopeless geek, which is why I spent my Friday night converting libXv API docs into man pages and releasing X.Org modules... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
