I had to put my subscription to this list on hold after the
explosion in
volume last year with the release of the Leopard version. I looked
through
many of the recent messages, but I couldn't get a sense for whether
the
lastest version of X11 is really ready for prime time.
If you need 8bit color or fullscreen support, then no. If you need to
hotplug monitors, then no. Other than that, I'd say 2.2.1 is pretty
much where you want to be.
I'm targeting the monitor hotplug to be fixed by 2.3.0 since that's
probably the next most annoying bug people are reporting.
AFAICT it depends a whole lot on your usage patterns, and also on what
your criteria for "ready for prime time" really are. For me, there
are
still gotchas in focus-follows-mouse mode (particularly willingness to
absorb input events that were meant for a non-X11 window), and Spaces
still doesn't work nearly as nicely with X11 as Virtual Desktop Pro
did,
and I'm still seeing the momentary-focus-drop problem whenever iCal or
Time Machine does something in the background. These are annoying
enough that I eagerly look forward to each new drop from Jeremy,
but they don't really interfere with getting my work done. Someone
else might not notice these problems at all (especially if not an FFM
or Spaces user), or might find them completely intolerable.
I'm not really sure what is going on here, and I am honestly not sure
how to debug it... and even still, I'm fairly certain that it's not a
bug in X11 itself. =/ If anyone can get an easy-to-reproduce (ie:
not "wait for an iCal alarm to sound") case, please let me know and
I'll try to figure out who is responsible for this bug and get it
fixed. In the mean time, I'm at a bit of a loss =/
I think most of the actual "crash" problems are solved as of 2.2.1,
but there's plenty of rough edges to be filed down still.
Actually, all known crashes are fixed as of 2.2.1... so if you get
any, please report them.
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