[Xprint] user-level documentation

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Tue Sep 27 20:02:41 EDT 2005


Drew Parsons wrote:

> All that's really available is the FAQ,
> http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html

But isn't this FAQ atrocious? It just boasts about how good xprint 
is from a technical point of view. But when it comes to explaining 
things like ddx, it does not go beyond expanding the acronyms, as in

    Q: What does "DDX" mean ?
    A: "DDX" is a short term for "Device Dependent X" - the
        device-specific layer of a Xserver ("DIX"(="Device
        Independent X") is the counterpart).

What sense am I, a user, supposed to make of this?

Open Source without documentation is even worse than closed source.

Regards, Jan


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