On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:44:37 +1200 Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > So when will Wayland replace xorg in LFS? > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- Hazel Russman <[email protected]> -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
