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Kragen Sitaker wrote:
>
> I just discovered that I had this quote, which expresses what I was
> trying to express on eros-arch this week much better and in far fewer
> words:
>
> When you go to achieve some new great thing, it is really helpful to
> only try to achieve *one* amazing thing at a time. If you try to
> do two or three, then the product of narrow probabilities bites you
> in the ass, and your chances of success dwindle to insignificance.
>
> -- Crispin Cowan, in <384B5F32.10FDAD89@cse.ogi.edu>, around
> 1999-12-09, on the Free Software Business list
>

I would like if the discussion will be summariazed somewhere it becames difficult to follow. EROS site is sielent about GUI and summary of this disccusion may be a very good design note.

My starting point for format is following. It is quite difficult for me to host something right now, so could someone put this summary on the web and maintain it to reflect discussion going t here, and as I said I'm not expert in GUI.

Solutions

Solution 1. X server.

• already exists
• a lot of code and dirvers
• stable architecture
• will allow most X Apps to be run
• security flaws (they are "well known", but not for me, so they should be specified)

Solution 2. XUL based GUI

• already exists in most diffcult parts (parser, renderer, and interpreter in mozilla)
• drivers for cards should be writen
• easily adapatable to other GUI systems

Solution 3. add your item here

• some aspect
• anther aspect

Aspects

Aspect 1. already exists

This feature is important and desirable because of ... (text of quoted message)

This feature can cause following problems: inheriting flaws, inconsitency with the rest of architecture, ...

Aspect 2. other aspect.

Positive effect.

Negative effect.

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