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SubjectRe: More GGI opining
> d) Compatibility
>
> Surely the greatest consideration to make when designing any system is whether
> it will be either compatible with the system it replaces or simply have enough
> backing to make that irrelevant, a competitor.
> If X11 will run in GGI, that's great, but what's the point ? To run X
> applications without X, inside the GGI system, would mean what amounts to
> re-implementing X. Obviously this is not the plan. Is a new toolkit being
> written ? What happens to GTK and QT/KDE ?

X will run ON TOP of GGI- for instance, instead of running XF86_SVGA, you'd run
XF86_GGI. So X is not being rewritten at all

> Cheers,
> Rik
>
> --
> Rik Hemsley
> Unix Admin (Linux, AIX, HP, DG, SCO, Interactive)
> Keyline Builders Merchants, Glasgow, UK




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