On 25.4.2015 13:59, Hazel Russman wrote:
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?
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Never. Xorg will stay around practically forever, as only newer toolkits
support Wayland directly. Everything else, including GTK+2, GTK+1, Qt4,
Qt3, Motif, FLTK, SDL1 and pure X11 (obviously) uses X11 and will run in
the wayland world using XWayland. In the ideal world, everything would
be ported to new toolkits or wayland directly and Xorg will be ditched -
but I don't think even I would live to that.
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