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