Le Lun 15 septembre 2008 12:57, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit : > > On Monday, 15 September 2008 at 12:35, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le Sam 13 septembre 2008 00:59, Arthur Pemberton a écrit : >> > I'm confused. Is Fedora really going to remove non X consoles? >> >> Mid-term that wouln't be such a bad idea. > > One would have to say why it is a good idea in the first place. Simply put, non-X-console input is a mess (X input is a mess too but at least there are people trying to fix it), non-X-console font support has fossilized, and support for modern high resolution screens is severely lacking. The console has not evolved for a long time, while text requirements have gone up. At this point a dumbed down text-only X session is probably the only credible console future (or something that is not X at all but uses many libraries we associate with apps now). Non-X-console state is so bad nowadays I don't bother reporting bugs on it. Even if they are fixed they always reappear the next Fedora cycle. There is simply not enough console users and console developpers to do anything but life support anymore. And that's ok. Do remember that X was defined at a time hardware was vastly less powerful and core X is not wasteful at all. Compared to how the rest of the system has bloated, X is definitely lean and mean. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
