On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 11:53 -0400, alex lupu wrote:
> a Wayland convert,
> -- Alex

You're a little way off being a Wayland convert just yet... but libinput
*has* already been a valuable spinoff from the Wayland effort, something
that could be used by Xorg as well.

But as Armin said, Wayland itself isn't just a new version of X11 - it's
a replacement for it, a new design taking into account modern hardware
and software and usage patterns, rather than being an evolution of
something built decades ago for black and white thin-client displays. 

Of course, if you've been using Linux for a long time, you'll be aware
that there have been many such projects which have achieved nothing. But
Wayland is exceptional in that it has serious backing - from distros,
and from upstream toolkit and desktop projects. The last Fedora release
included a mostly-functional preview of Gnome-on-Wayland, and will be
looking to make that the default in the next year or so. Other distros,
and other desktop projects are working towards the same goal.

Simon.


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