From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 9: 9:10 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 F37FF37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:09:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588D043F43 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h15H8lOs009128; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:08:48 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h15H8bRe009125; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:08:42 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:08:37 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: William Palfreman Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) In-Reply-To: <20030205155953.I283@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> Message-ID: <20030205190001.S43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> 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, William Palfreman wrote: > 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? > Something "more" what? There is no sense in wanting to have something more unless you have concrete things you want/need tobe different. And spending your time on ttyV1 is hardly the problem of the graphics system - you probably just need to look a bit more at various terminal emulators. > -- > W. Palfreman. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message