Re: Can't X be elemenated?

[Krishna Akella <akellak@onid.orst.edu>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David Lang wrote:

> different toolkits exist becouse people are solving different problems.
> which set of people do you propose telling that their desires don't
> matter?
>
> you can produce X programs just useing the Xlib libraries, which are
> available on every system and don't require all the bloat of the higher
> leve tools, but do you really want to? the higher level toolkits exist to
> make life easier for the programmer, is the difficulty in selecting which
> toolkit to use really so bad that you want to eliminate all of them
> instead?
 "eliminate all of them". I never said that. Infact its all about choice
and freedom that we are using Linux/GNU.

> this is like sayign that it's to hard to choose a fullscreed text editor,
> you have vi, elvis, vim, emacs, openoffice, abiword, joe, ... choosign
> between them it to complicated so lets eliminate all of them and everyone
> will jsut use ed instead.
 again - eliminating all - is a premise you have made. What I was talking
about was the lack of standards. Interoperability is a _desirable_
feature.
> David Lang