jgarb@CSD360B.ERIM.ORG (Joe Garbarino) (05/18/89)
After a week of gathering responses to my question about the frequency of window movement, I have the following results: Four people who responded work much the way that I do, opening many windows and moving things around quite a bit, and would get annoyed by a 20 second delay. Three others thought that it would be nice to be able to turn off the windowing system, including 4Sight, altogether. The SGI people feel that their upcoming release of the X Window System will work well enough to be useable. I'm looking forward to this and will be glad to say so here if and when that proves true. One of the main reasons I brought this whole topic up is that I wanted to insure that people with access only to the SGI's implementation of the X Window System are aware that there are very fast implementations available. The currently available implementation of the X Window System by SGI is not acceptable, nor does it accurately reflect the current state of X Window System implementations in general. I want to be sure that someone that has only tried the X Window System on SGI equipment does not develop a jaded perspective of X due to that "experience". And I wanted the SGI developers to know there are people experienced with the X Window System using their machines, anxiously awaiting a fast X implementation matching the graphical speed daemon the Iris really is. Joe Garbarino ERIM P.O. Box 8618 Ann Arbor, Mi. 48107 (313)994-1200 x2508 jgarb@csd360b.erim.org