Comment Re:Thoughts on a more modern GUI (Score 1) 441
Actually, things could be much better than X.
If you talk to the MetroLink guys (btw, they wrote much of what is X and have been its commercial maintainer for years), they would tell you that the most efficient thing to do would be to scrap X and write directly to Frame Buffers.
Two experienced people 6 months (which means 3 for 9).