On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > In message > <CAGsORuAnDs_E=l747+tp95nxjxdonnsqfvfco+xd2hjsj-u...@mail.gmail.com> > , Zhihao Yuan writes: >>On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>> In message <[email protected]>, 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 > [email protected] | 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/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
