From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 8:11:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421B037B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntl.com (pc1-glfd2-4-cust59.glfd.cable.ntl.com [81.99.187.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143F943F79 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from aqua.lan.palfreman.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ntl.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h15GDim8088304; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:13:44 GMT (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from localhost (william@localhost) by aqua.lan.palfreman.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h15GDhZr088301; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:13:43 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: aqua.lan.palfreman.com: william owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:13:43 +0000 (GMT) From: William Palfreman To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) In-Reply-To: <20030205103556.B7212@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Message-ID: <20030205155953.I283@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> References: <20030205103556.B7212@papagena.rockefeller.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > XFree86 is doing great, and getting better and better, in my opinion. > What's the problem? I don't think X can be the only way to do it. There has to be something more IMO. On the technical side there is a lot of progres being made with light-emitting polymers, and future very flat, flexible devices aren't necessarily best handled by a mouse and XFree86. Also, given the posibilities of graphical consoles, how it it that I still find them a pain to use and spend almost all of my time on ttyV1? -- W. Palfreman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message