[Ilugc] Are you joking? [Previously "Are you serious?"]
- From: RamP@xxxxxxxxxx (Ram Prakash)
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:25:28 +0530
The X Server was designed to be used in a networked environment, with
a client/server model in mind in 1980's, before MS Windows came. The
concepts behind X Server are original and not found in other other
operating systems. It is the X Server concept that makes possible
several very different desktop environments - like KDE, gnome,
failsafe, fvwm2, icewm, mwm, olwm, twm, DyDe, Enlightenment and
others, with each environment having their own wide range of themes.
This is an innovative idea that makes a lot of sense, giving
flexibility and usability to support a wide range of users and uses.
Very true, the concept of decoupling the display from the application
is/was really a very novel idea, if not a stroke of genius.
So too is the X protocol.
Regards,
Ram
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