On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 02:45:40PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > It is my intent to criticise X11, for a number of reasons. X11 is > needlessly complex, has terrible usability from the end-user's perspective > (normal people find the configuration, font selection, and so forth to be > incomprehensible), for having poor documentation, and for a number of more > technical reasons. true (I said a lot of that in the late 80's). Since it didn't go away, I decided it should at least work properly. > X11 could benefit from criticism. To some extent, criticizing X11 means > criticizing the work people have done on X11. Some-- perhaps even most-- > of the significant problems I see with X11 have to do with the mindset of > "needlessly complex answers to simple questions". > > Why did Apple choose not to use X11 as the window system for MacOS X? I believe the answer to that is that they already had a lot of code of their own which worked with the existing system. (I've also read that their internals aren't much to brag about either). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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