Jaffa, I have no doubts that new applications will look slick and fit in with our expectations nicely, but for the folks building and devloping existing applications using the standard UI frameworks, will they be compilable and run with minimal modification.
It was whether we are going to continue with X but have a compositing manager available so "old style" apps can run.
There has been a lot of discussion around from people in this thread and others that they are nervous they will lose the utility of the apps they have now and my question was an attmept to clarify that.

Also, without the SDK we are restricted from what we develop - is it worth continuing to build applications using the frameworks as they stand now, or do people enter a holding pattern waiting for the SDK (as you are..)

From my personal perspective, I dont care and will port to whatever, I'm hoping that the principles I am already building should be transferable to the new frameworks and I can ease up on the hacks I've needed to insert to get it running

On a side note, Jaffa you mentioned last night that I was building emacs or my own OS, I'm not - I simply have tools and capabilities and expectations of this platform that I simply cannot achieve using the standard tools.

I would love to use the widgetset of vogue or canvas library as required to do what I do, but I simply can't right now.

Having kinetics and a touchable UI is adictive and gives me much more power of expression than using GTK and suffering enormous performance limitations.
(of course GTK has features and benefits I still don't have - related mainly to the shortcuts I've needed to make)

Its bloody hard work though, I didnt come here to write my own widgetset and framework, but simply dug in and built from what worked well.

*I* am continuously shocked by how much code I've done and would love to bring it back into standard, I ponder every day whether my YUV hack could be slid underneath x11 itself and get a native global speedup for everything, but know nothing about the deep internals to even know if its possible.