Kent Fredric posted on Mon, 04 Sep 2017 17:48:40 +1200 as excerpted: > Right, there's going to be plenty of examples of things that aren't > portable, and will need to stay in perpetuity in x11-* . x11-drivers > are probably a good example. Though I'm in no hurry to deprecate X11, > wayland will take even longer than systemd for me to go "Ok, yes, now > we should switch everyone to this"
Indeed. Even after the general gui-provider can be assumed to be wayland in much the same was as it has been X for decades now, rootless/nested X will be around for many years/decades, for much the same reason that I'm still using dosbox to effectively provide "nested DOS" for that single legacy/proprietary game[1] I still play somewhat frequently. Some things, in particular X-based proprietary apps such as but not limited to games, are unlikely to ever be ported, so those continuing to find a use for them will continue to have a use for X, almost certainly eventually in nested and ultimately emulated form, much as I do with that game and dosbox. > Yeah. At this point there's not much value in a switch. And I'm not > entirely happy with either "gui-" or "desktop-". "x11-" is, for all its > warts, more useful than either of those still. > > I'm tempted to suggest something like "ux-", which conceptually > encompasses GUI/UI/Display concerns, and having an "x" gives a nod to > its legacy as being "x" without it being part of the definition :) I actually really like the ux-* idea. So much so I wish I'd thought of it. =:^) It doesn't come across as nearly as "tired and worn out" as "gui-*" does, here (tho I already see a reply from someone else with the opposite reaction, favoring desktop-* over ux-*). --- [1] Dosbox game: Master of Orion, original, (c) 1993 updated copy. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
