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You might be right! The core issue of the ICCCM though is not that it's poorly designed in and of itself, but that it is forced to worked around certain specific deficiencies in the X11 protocol (and by "specific" I mean "easily fixed in the next protocol bump", as opposed to "warrant an entire redesign"). The ICCCM authors even suggest improvements to X11 to make for a more coherent system, but sadly it seems most o…
Maybe they should just recognize the fact that the web has won and nobody cares about X any more, and implement a window system that runs in the web browser, and run the web browser in full screen direct access mode as the only top level application. I mean, now that we have HTML and WebGL and Canvas, who needs X11's neanderthal rendering model? I'm kinda surprised that nobody's written an X server in JavaScript yet…
Is there a rule 34 about things that shouldn't be written in JavaScript being written in JavaScript?