Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:20:47 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@freebsd.org> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Lorenzo Cogotti <miciamail@hotmail.it> Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <63170.1347898847@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:07:00 EST." <CAGsORuAnDs_E=L747%2BtP95NxjxDonNsQfVfCo%2Bxd2HjSJ-uOnA@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CAGsORuAnDs_E=L747+tP95NxjxDonNsQfVfCo+xd2HjSJ-uOnA@mail.gmail.com> , Zhihao Yuan writes: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> In message <BLU0-SMTP510B16745B704C714268E2D5950@phx.gbl>, Lorenzo Cogotti writ >> es: >>>Hi, >>>I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official >>>supported graphical environment. >> >> We already do: It's called "X11" :-) > >How about Wikipedia "graphical environment" before u say this? How about you try to install ports/x11-vm/twm, turn your CPU speed down to 20 MHz and get a good feel for how a graphical environment felt 25 years ago, before you make a fool of yourself ? :-) There is no way that FreeBSD is going to annoint a canonical window manager (look that up too!), we've been down that road before and the landscape is ugly and filled with bikesheds. My suggest was 100% serious: Assume X11 _is_ the graphical environment, pick a toolkit which is written to work with any window manager, which all good toolkits are, and move on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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