On 06/25/15 18:02, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:41 -0400
m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
mark "and why is it called xorg-x11-server, when in X
terminology, it's the client?"*
* Which I always thought was bass-ackward, but...
You should think of it this way: the program that wants something drawn
on the screen is a client; the program that does the drawing is the
server. The client asks the server to draw stuff on the screen, and
server is, well... servicing those requests, from various clients.
<snip>
You misunderstand me: I understand the terminology, and why they chose it. I
simply disagree with their choice, and have always found it confusing, esp. to
anyone coming into it since, um, the mid/late 80's, when *everything* else in
the world used the terminology the other way, from d/b to three-tiered
architecture.
mark
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