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by metric10
2543 days ago
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It irks me too, but I can't really argue with the decision. X11's model of remote rendering is flawed; try starting up Firefox over a tunneled SSH connection sometime. In order to justify network rendering at the windowing system level, I think you need a model that could reasonably give good performance to both local and remote applications without application developers having to care. Sun's early windowing system was NeWS, which had a PostScript interpreter running on the display terminal. I think it was the better idea in the long run, but at the time X was easier to work with and wasn't patent encumbered... |
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