"Bimbo". What an arrogant, selfish attitude. I use graphics to do some
serious scientific visualisation. I *need* performance. I'm sure there
are drivers in the kernel that you depend on but I don't. How would
you feel I said they were a waste of space and should be removed from
the kernel source tree? Just go and download them separately and hope
that there's a patch for the kernel version you want.
Now, I don't use games, and have no interest in them, But if someone
else wants some driver added to the kernel that allows them to play
some game, I don't mind, provided it doesn't increase the kernel
source by 20 MBytes or something (I do care about download
times). Which it shouldn't: if lots of driver code is needed by KGI
(pure speculation here, I'm not claiming that the KGI source tree is
large) to support lots of different cards, then designing a fairly
static kernel API would allow them to have a small amount of code in
the kernel source tree and a separate tarball of video drivers. So I
don't see any need for kernel source/binary bloat.
> > many programmers would love to have very simple low level
> > graphics interface that does not take too much time to learn and
> > is fast.
> >
> > My personal opinion as an user who has used X windows
> > for 6 years, is that X windows is dead system and keeping
> > it as only choise for graphical programs and multimedia
> > seriously limites interest for making graphical programs
> > for Linux.
Some of us write graphics/GUI code which works for all Unices. X,
despite it's problems, is the only choice.
> As it should be. Graphics should be an add-on for those who want
> to use them. Not forced on the rest of us who don't want 'em.
>
> I don't use X and I won't use GGI, so I will object to having either
> in the kernel.
And I object to the stuff in the kernel you depend on but I
don't. Wow. What a mature attitude. Fortunately Linus will decide on
technical merit, not whether he personally uses something.
Regards,
Richard....
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