Wildly off topic X11 discussion (was Re: gnus-article-browse-html-article works?)

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>> The reason was that my Firefox isn't running on the same machine as my
>>> Emacs, so when writing to /tmp, Firefox can't pick it up.
>>
>> Ubuntu's apparently in the process of removing this silly network
>> transparency provided by X11.  It's a silly legacy from the 80-ies that
>> noone needs or want.
>>
>> Or so they say.
>
> I do wonder at ubuntu's decision-making process -- sometimes they seem
> driven purely by hype...

Hey, it worked for Apple and Microsoft for years.[1]  No reason they shouldn't
try it themselves - and, frankly, given the general experience level folks
seem to have with remote X stuff these days?  I don't know many people will
really notice.

(Have you noticed that GNOME do their screen sharing with a VNC server?)

        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  ...although Microsoft actually implemented a remote display protocol that
     is better in places than X11, eventually.

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