10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
6:13 p.m.
Further, that
low-level "mechanism, not policy" architecture of X is one
of its big points of existence. An X display can look and act like
ANYTHING.
And that's the problem. For most uses, the detailed design of widgets
doesn't matter. You just want a CHECKBOX here, a TEXT field here, and a
SUBMIT button there. Good enough for Amazon, at least, which is a
non-trivial UI. Plenty of other examples too. Remote computing on a intranet is interesting, less
wasteful than big
desktops, but it hasn't exactly thrived as a model. For it to do so,
would resuscitate the idea of a "workgroup" or "departmental" server
with enough grunt to virtualise desktop apps.
I don't know where you work, but in the major hospitals I work for as a
physician, I'm connecting via Citrix to a remote server where I enter my
charting. The dummy terminal is back.
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