XServer 1.4 delayed to Gutsy+1?

[bryceharrington]

Hi all,

I'm the Ubuntu X maintainer, and was the one who made the call to hold off on xserver 1.4. I gave a detailed response here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...1&postcount=52

But to confirm, no this has no impact on displayconfig-gtk or bulletproof-x - really the only part of xorg 7.3 they really depended on was xrandr 1.2, and that's already in. As others commented, displayconfig-gtk is already released in Gutsy (please play with it and send in patches if you discover bugs - its Python so should be easy). Bulletproof-X is also deployed but not turned on yet by default.

Also, because Xorg is developed modularly, we've already incorporated a huge portion of Xorg 7.3. It's just that since the final bits and pieces of Xorg 7.3 are coming out post-Feature Freeze, we're going to be missing on a few of the newer pieces. Here is a page I maintain that shows the current merge status for all the 7.3 pieces: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg...s_current.html. As you can see, there are only a few packages still red.

It's heartening to see such strong interest in X, and especially for Displayconfig and Bulletproof-X. If you'd like to get involved in helping push Ubuntu's X even further along through testing, backporting patches for Gutsy, or helping strengthen X for Gutsy+1, please join the rest of us at #ubuntu-x on Freenode, or drop me a message. I'd love to welcome more people to the team! There's lots of important work that can be done!

[sumguy231]

Thanks for explaining it all. There's a lot of conflicting information floating around, and I'm pleased to hear that the new xrandr will still ship. I had no idea that all the different bits of Xorg were seperable like that.

Keep up the good work.

[vertigo1980]

thanks bryceharrington, it's comforting to know that most of 7.3 is going to make it in. would a backport for those missing/outdated pieces be possible, so that those of us who would like to can get the "complete" package?

anybody have a link to the xserver 1.4 changelog?