Re: [MiNT] talkng about graphical layer of mint.

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:25:09PM -0400, Katherine Ellis wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> > Risking to be a bit annoying I would like to point out that a working X
> > server is pretty much useless unless we have a working shared library schema
> > before (which would be needed to make the X lib shared).
> > 
> 
> Julian I don't understand.
> X even if NO software ported to it, is still very valuable.
> Networking my X in mono to the linux box DOES work, and can run app very
> well from there, a tad slow coz though serial), and in mono small res,
> kinda sucks to use kde and netscape on the falcon.
> I do think that with a faster connection (scsi, ethernet whatever) X for
> MiNT is very useful, even if no native applications written for it.

And there are cheaper and faster X terminals out there than a Falcon.  Of
course a port may be useful but it won't find much users unless we solve
the shared lib problem.

Anyway, I think neither Julian nor me wanted to discourage you to try a
port of X.

Ciao

Guido
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