You are making assumptions, that no company will ever produce a hardware device that has a monochrome screen. Yet, a monochrome screen would be suitable for ereader devices such as a kindle.
As for code, memory today is cheap. I've looked closely at X memory useage and it seems from what i can see anyway that X server code consumes less than 10 MB, with all of the compability infrastructure. Maintaining code for compatability and backwards compatability has value greater than saving some kilobytes or a megabyte in the age of hundreds or thousands of megabytes. If a handheld device manufacturer has very limited memory to work with, maybe they could do their own custom compile X, if necessary, without some sections of code. But I am doubtful that will often be the case that this is necessary. But, for a desktop system today, it simply does not make sense whatsoever, the backwards compatability with older X applications is far more valuable. Ive been using X since the days of 90 MB of RAM. X memory usage has never been a big issue, the idea that X, including code for backwards compatability, uses a lot of RAM is an old lie that refuses to die. Blowing up baclwards compatability to save a megabyte or 2 of RAM makes no sense whatsoever. On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Alan Coopersmith < [email protected]> wrote: > On 07/16/11 06:43 PM, David Jackson wrote: > > Has the X.org organisation ever thought of promoting X.org for use by > companies > > on thier handheld devices such as phones? > > You mean like back in the days when Jim Gettys was one of the leaders of > handhelds.org and doing research at the Compaq/HP labs on the iPaq? > Yes, I think there might have been a bit of thinking, especially when they > hosted the X.org Developers Conference there - as hard as it is for some > people to believe we ever do any thinking here. > > Or perhaps you mean the last couple of years, when Nokia's (now Intel's) > Meego developers have been one of the major contributors to X.Org. > > > Years ago, in their infinite wisdom, X.org developers removed monochrome > > support and low colour support, > > Nope, sadly, both are still there, though I think the mobile developers > like > those on the Meego project wish we'd dump more code like that which just > bloats their embedded systems, since no one wants to browse the web or play > Angry Birds on 1, 4, or 8 bit screens. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > >
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