Steve Brown skrev:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Ove Kaaven wrote:
James McKenzie skrev:
I'll agree that this is duplication of the existing X11 code, but the effect is more pleasant to the eye and leads to less user confusion, not to speak of a less expensive solution (I have yet to find a 'free' X11 client that is worth anything on Windows.)
You mean X server, not client? (Yes, it's confusing that the machine the user is at is called the server, but that's the way it is...)
Not really confusing -- it's the piece of the picture providing display services to the program creating output, hence it is the server.
Sure it might be confusing, because that's not how the logic goes in the Microsoft world. Over there, the big machine acting as Terminal Server thing is the server, and the Remote Desktop client, which provides the actual display, is the client... while on X11, it's the complete opposite. I'm not going to pretend that it couldn't be confusing.