Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:24:25 -0500 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Lorenzo Cogotti <miciamail@hotmail.it> Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAGsORuB4yd8RKNLRWmcTx16iDOHWJkD1rnyArb98NwN%2BpwvPHA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <63170.1347898847@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <CAGsORuAnDs_E=L747%2BtP95NxjxDonNsQfVfCo%2Bxd2HjSJ-uOnA@mail.gmail.com> <63170.1347898847@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. You can "assume", but you can't deny that X11 is not GUI at all, and twm is not a modern GUI either. > > -- > 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. -- Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ___________________________________________________ 4BSD -- http://4bsd.biz/
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