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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:15:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 27 Apr 2025 09:12:34 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Nobody wanted to fix the X11 issues.

The whole architecture was full of baggage from the 1980s. Consider: in 
addition to the graphics library, it even included a font server. Clearly 
the assumption was that all rendering of screen images was going to happen 
on the display server, not in the client app. That assumption became more 
and more anachronistic over time.