[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Wed Mar 7 11:13:15 CET 2012

2012/3/7 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>:
+> Le 07/03/2012 10:26, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>>
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> Unless someone comes along and does a reasonable amount of coding before
+>> mga2, I think we'll have to deprecate supporting startx (it can still be
+>> used in some circumstances, but audio and accelerated graphics will not
+>> be available).
+>>
+>> See this comment (and the link therein) for more info on the issue:
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4652#c9
+>
+> What is the operational translation of 'deprecating support of foo' ?
+> automatic answer "no support" to any user reporting issue with it ? removing
+> it from the distribution ?
+>
+> While I don't care about the first one, I do care about the second
+> interpretation. Given the very high fragility of the gnome environment
+> nowadays, using old-days tools to workaround those various issues is
+> frequently useful.
+
+Different from Guillaume I do care about the impact for the user.
+There are many out there who are used to startx and also docs and
+howtos which use it. Therefore we will need an explanation for
+switching off startx.  An explanation to be used in forums, which is a
+bit more than just a link to a bug report. In other words: to be
+understood by non-techie users.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+