* Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> [2004-11-08 00:04]:
I think what will happen in the log run will be the adoption of ideas from projects like Berlin and Y into the X.org servers.
In fact, this is what's already happening. Personally, I like the flexibility X11 offers -- indeed, pushing everything across a socket is *not* inherently much slower than any direct API calls. The key is to push more intelligence back into the server. Most every new feature in X.org aims in that direction in one way or another. It certainly appears like the fork was great for X11 -- it seems to have liberated some very smart people to advance the state of the art at last. Regards, -- Aristotle "Like punning, programming is a play on words." -- Alan J. Perlis, "Epigrams in Programming"