Re: OT: Better setup for me? (was Re: Problems with current Apple X11 package)
Re: OT: Better setup for me? (was Re: Problems with current Apple X11 package)
- Subject: Re: OT: Better setup for me? (was Re: Problems with current Apple X11 package)
- From: Randy Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:35:43 -0600
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 01:31 PM, magenta wrote:
Okay, based on various responses, both personal and public, it sounds
like
the point of X11.app is somewhat different than I was assuming, and I
might
be better off switching to LinuxPPC and run MacOnLinux instead, but I
have
a few reservations about that.
The view I expressed is strictly based on my observations. I haven't
had any contact with Apple people outside of this forum. I do believe
that Apple wants to please us as well as the non-X11 literate. I just
think that, since we already have choices and there are fewer of us,
they will first try to provide for the others. They can most quickly
and easily provide for our needs by providing source code to integrate
into other X servers and window managers.
Besides, even without running quartz-wm, (or X11.app, for that matter,)
we can still run an X11 environment to our liking. All we sacrifice is
some consistency with native OS X apps. However, we can still run the
OS X apps that we choose.
Keep in mind that X11.app/quartz-wm is still in beta. They will
probably fix some of the bugs and add some features before it is
released. There are leikely to be more releases with more features
added later.
Sorry to have been a bother.
I haven't seen you being a bother. This has been a valuable
discussion. Besides, even if we are a minority, at least we can be a
vocal one. <grin>
randy.
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