Re: X11 ready for prime time?
Re: X11 ready for prime time?
- Subject: Re: X11 ready for prime time?
- From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 14:14:15 -0400
- Comments: In-reply-to "Eric Fielding" <email@hidden> message dated "Sat, 03 May 2008 10:44:12 -0700"
"Eric Fielding" <email@hidden> writes:
> 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.
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 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.
regards, tom lane
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