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From: pjlahaie@zeus.achilles.net (Paul JY Lahaie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 19:12:11 -0400
Organization: Achilles Internet Ltd
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In article <31740061.389946B0@lambert.org>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

>I'v eoften thought that X should provide an object interface,
>and that look-and-feel should be implemented in X server --
>like the window manager should be.

   I hope that after you have such thoughts you wake up from that
horrible nightmare :-)   The X server should not enforce policy.
It should do what it needs to do, which is windows, and nothing else.

   The entire flexibility of X is lost if you force a policy on the user.

						- Paul