On 05/09/2017 00:15, Duncan wrote: > Kent Fredric posted on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 07:29:42 +1200 as excerpted: > >> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:16:46 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." >> <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: >> >>> Maybe just UI but that maybe to generic. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface >> >> As a side question, what does "xui" mean in this world? >> >> I went googling and all I could find was "X User Interface" >> >> And all I could find there is that's "A user interface to the X Windows >> System" >> >> Are we allowed to consider Wayland and X11 are both "X Windows Systems" >> providing "X User Interfaces", despite the underlying protocols being >> different? > > Warnock agree? > > (Tho posting makes it no longer warnock.) Thanks for the warnock > reference[1], BTW. I knew of the problem but had no name for it, so you > broadened my vocabulary in a very useful way. =:^) > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma >
"xui" is a nice descriptive name and gets the point across in a reasonably unambiguous way. wayland is not X11, but it comes from a desire to do what X11 does without X11's problems. There might be a smallish snag with educating users what "xui" means as the name is not in common use. "display-server" also serves as that is what wayland and X11 have in common. It's a long unwieldy name and the "-" might trip over hidden naming assumptions. Given a vote, I'd vote for "xui". Second choice is to stick with "x11-" as it will take a very long time for all users to forget what x11 is and how wayland relates -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
