Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:07:51 +0000 (GMT)

> No. In many cases (menus, dialog boxes, ...) it is really ineffective
> to transfer data by lines as X do it.

X is meant to provide services not policy. Thats very important. You can
run your own policy engine and interface on the server if you wish

> MS-Windows do it this way. And I think that their way is better than
> X. (Sad to say).

MSWin isnt a networked windowing system

Alan