RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)

[Vaisburd, Haim]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote: 


> Am 07.08.2007 um 03:22 schrieb Vaisburd, Haim:

>>    For this, of course, we should not abandon X windows like Apple 
>>    did.

> FYI: Neither NeXT nor Apple did ever use X as their windowing system.

> You'd better get informed before you starting to rant.

Wikipedia's "X Window System" article annotates the following link as
being from
Mike Paquette, Apple Computer: 
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75257&cid=6734612

<Quote>

"Why Apple didn't use X for the window system"

[...]

Things we'd need to add/extend in X Window software
(protocol+server+manager+fonts+...):

[... - 9 points I omit - ...]

So, yes, it looks like we can use X for Quartz. All we need do is
[... -more omissions- ...]
Just what did we gain from this?

Oh, yeah. My mom can run an xterm session on her desktop now without
downloading the Apple X11 package, a shareware X server or buying a
software package.

Been there, evaluated that.

</Quote>

So, as far as the source can be trusted, Apple abandoned the _idea_ of
using X Windows
after evaluating it.

FYI: I do not rant. Ever.

Always yours,
Tima