| 1 |
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:59:39 +0200 |
| 2 |
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> "xui" is a nice descriptive name and gets the point across in a |
| 5 |
> reasonably unambiguous way. wayland is not X11, but it comes from a |
| 6 |
> desire to do what X11 does without X11's problems. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
And I have a few other perks of xui too. |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
we could in a pinch pretend it means "x/ui", if people aren't |
| 11 |
comfortable with considering "Wayland" to be "An X". Then "X/UI" would |
| 12 |
be "X, and things like it" |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
The wiki page for "X Windows System"[1] also had some interesting notes. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
> X Consortium release manager Matt Landau stating in 1993, "There is |
| 17 |
> no such thing as 'X Windows' or 'X Window', despite the repeated |
| 18 |
> misuse of the forms by the trade rags" |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
Neat. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Nomenclature |
Archives