Sadly, Two X.Org GSoC Projects Already Failed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Sadly, Two X.Org GSoC Projects Already Failed

Two Google Summer of Code projects for the X.Org Foundation have already failed...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTczMTE

[mark45]

I guess most of us miss new X.org features like outgoing farts.

[Filiprino]

Outgoing farts?

[tuubi]

Outgoing farts?

Better outgoing than incoming.

[mark45]

Outgoing farts?

Like this, but with farts.

[sarmad]

One of the projects that failed was the the lightweight Qt Quick compositing window manager effort.

Good. Worthless projects deserve to die.

[BradN]

Maybe i'm in the minority but I think what X needs is aggressive refactoring and code cleanup in the name of maintainability. Backwards compatibility and network transparency are its strongest assets I think. Or at least, any X replacement should make those features first class citizens. We use network forwarding every day in particular, and on relatively old hardware too. It's usable even on a crappy 100 megabit network...

[89c51]

Which was the other one that failed?

[smitty3268]

Which was the other one that failed?

Probably tesselation support in mesa, i think i heard that guy went missing without giving notice. Another volunteer has asked to start working on it, hopefully he makes better progress.

[Ericg]

Maybe i'm in the minority but I think what X needs is aggressive refactoring and code cleanup in the name of maintainability. Backwards compatibility and network transparency are its strongest assets I think. Or at least, any X replacement should make those features first class citizens. We use network forwarding every day in particular, and on relatively old hardware too. It's usable even on a crappy 100 megabit network...

Wayland. XWayland will handle backwards compatibility, Wayland can also do networking better than X.