Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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I think there are a large number of person(s) who are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill making out that X11 needs to be replaced with something.
Sure, I would love X11 to be replaced with something that is super-ultra-modern, heck, I am sure that almost EVERYONE would love that, however, the reality is that X11 isn't as bad as it is made out to be.
There have been a number of people who have pointed out where things can easily be corrected by tweaking aspects of syncronisation so that tearing of Windows do not occur, better support by companies in terms of producing drivers that FULLY take advtange of the capabilities of the card, extensions that push more work off onto the GPU and as more people jump and catch the "opensource bug", the mindshare of contributors will increase.
I stress again, X11 isn't the problem. There are numerous examples out there, such as SGI's X11 and X-Accelerate which prove that X11 itself isn't the cause of the slow down but the actual implementation itself.
As for widget sets, but Qt and GTK support OpenGL extensions, meaning, there is no reason to say there isn't the "stuff" there to make an "accelerated GUI".