Re: [TUHS] X and NeWS history (long)

Grant Taylor writes: Well, I agree that this is one area in which X does OK. Although, being a command line sort of guy, I'm happy to ssh into a machine and run commands. I try to avoid non-scriptable GUIs. I don't administer headless machines, and stay very far away from Oracle. I'm not sure what their installer does, but usually running X requires an installed and running system. So since a number of people have justified networked graphics we're back to the question of what an API should look like. At a very high level, it needs to be modular because there is no one thing that gets done with graphics, and there's no reason to carry a huge API around just because you need a small part of it. In particular, there is a distinction between applications that spit out geometry and those that spit out mass quantities of pixel/voxel data. Also, because of the way that this discussion started, I'm not sure whether or not resource management (windows, keyboard, etc.) falls under the umbrella of graphics. Jon