[xougen] Some thoughts about X....

[Stefan Klinger]

Well i finally done some thinking about X(ouvert)....

Nearly everybody seems to like the idea of having X modularized, why 
then not stay compatible with the X-Protocol and other basic X 
interfaces, but write the actual implementation in an OOP Language like 
C++ ?
Also making the development of drivers and such things easier would 
maybe help, that companies which don't want to share/open there hardware 
documentations will write there own driver (not ideal to have an binary 
driver but better than having no driver at all).

About the server side widgets - i think predefined widget sets will 
never survive, but maybe it would be possible to "upload" a set of 
predefined "drawing operations" and "pixmaps" or something like that. So 
a toolkit can be written that it can upload more complicated widgets to 
the server.

An other really actual problem seems the clipboard, there should be an 
well know extensions that the clipboard will support mime content or any 
other way that an applications knows what type of data it contains. Then 
it would also be possible, that an application tells which data types it 
supports and let automatic conversion happen.

And an other important thing would be to have a better documentation 
than X - maybe an seperate documentation project should be created in 
paralell to Xouvert.

Something I am not sure about are printers, aren't they very much like 
screens. Wouldn't it be possible to have a printer server work a bit 
like an X-Server, or just let it be a special kind of X-Server?

If I just reviewed allready existing things or if sombody thinks my 
ideas are total nonsens - please give your opinion.

Stefan Klinger