On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. Leave non X consoles alone. Plain and simple. If you want to make it better fine, if not leave it alone. I don't even think that this is up for debate. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
