Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:28:31 +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: <63226.1347899311@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:24:25 EST." <CAGsORuB4yd8RKNLRWmcTx16iDOHWJkD1rnyArb98NwN%2BpwvPHA@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CAGsORuB4yd8RKNLRWmcTx16iDOHWJkD1rnyArb98NwN+pwvPHA@mail.gmail.com> , Zhihao Yuan writes: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> wrote: >> 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. > >You can "assume", but you can't deny that X11 is not GUI at all, and >twm is not a modern GUI either. You are confusing "window manager" and "graphical user interface", one is layered on the other, your homework is to figure out which. -- 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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