Comment Re:Linux Dektop dependant on X11 (Score 1) 677
>> You have to remember that things pick up speed at an incredible rate in the OSS world. I believe that Xgl/Axgl/Compriz are just the right kind of seed to get people interested.
This usually happens when a corp (read IBM, SUN) throws a bunch of money on an opensoure project.
I don't see that happening with desktop linux.
Since you mentioned JBoss, i'll have to remind you that it was the laughing stock of the entire Java enterprise development
community for a couple of years. Don't know if the acquisition by Redhat improved things...
>> When it reaches a watershed where all you need to really know is a little OpenGL to start improving the desktop/wm, I think you'll see an exponetial increase in the number of projects.
This is exactly the problem with linux. "A little opengl" to start improving the desktop/wm is not going to cut it unfortunately.
If thats all you have, you'll end up in the same mess as before (incosistent applications that do whatever their "amateur" developers
like, no serious usability studies, no professionalism, no COMMON VISION). So how is this going to help the situation ??
The thing you and ever linux fan and advocate needs to realise is that the ordinary user does not care about compiz,beryl,cube animations and so on.
What he wants is _consistency_ and _user-friendly_ expected and predictable behavior. OSX delivers in spades whilst linux doesn't yet know
the meaning of these terms.
This usually happens when a corp (read IBM, SUN) throws a bunch of money on an opensoure project.
I don't see that happening with desktop linux.
Since you mentioned JBoss, i'll have to remind you that it was the laughing stock of the entire Java enterprise development
community for a couple of years. Don't know if the acquisition by Redhat improved things...
>> When it reaches a watershed where all you need to really know is a little OpenGL to start improving the desktop/wm, I think you'll see an exponetial increase in the number of projects.
This is exactly the problem with linux. "A little opengl" to start improving the desktop/wm is not going to cut it unfortunately.
If thats all you have, you'll end up in the same mess as before (incosistent applications that do whatever their "amateur" developers
like, no serious usability studies, no professionalism, no COMMON VISION). So how is this going to help the situation ??
The thing you and ever linux fan and advocate needs to realise is that the ordinary user does not care about compiz,beryl,cube animations and so on.
What he wants is _consistency_ and _user-friendly_ expected and predictable behavior. OSX delivers in spades whilst linux doesn't yet know
the meaning of these terms.
