Re: [forum] A strawman proposal for X.org & XFree86.org

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:42:12AM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> Drop xterm, twm, old X toolkits, PCF/BDF fonts, etc.

Umm, why?  xterm is still a _lot_ more useable than any of the gnome/kde
windowmanager.  twm is also nice to have - I switch back to after a
while everytime I install a new Linux Distribution when I'm finally fed
up with the desktop enviroment.

Now we could argue whether we really need one big X (or XFree) source
tree or should rather have Xserver, Xlib, <foo>extentsion, xterm,
twm, smaple-client packages.  I think such a split up would make lot of
sense and allow more fine-grained release.  I guess there's also
arguments against this, so people who have them please speak up.

> We need just basic X APIs, sufficient for GTK and Qt toolkit to be 
> operational.
> Motif support, etc. should be dropped ASAP.

Motif is not part of X, it's just yet another toolkit.  And lots of
applications still need it, even on Linux.