On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:20:24 -0600 [email protected] wrote: > On Monday, February 17, 2014 09:38:47 PM Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2014-02-17, Nick Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, I guess that explains it ... well mostly ... I had > > > thought that Wayland was just an optional alternative to X for > > > the major desktops for a long time to come, but that article > > > seems to state that it'll be Wayland or nothing, sometime > > > "soon". [...] > > Wayland is coming. Martin Graesslin (who occasionally reads here) is > > running stuff there. > > > > My phone is running wayland. > > > > So it is coming soon. [...] > I welcome the change. X11 needs to be retired.
On the grounds of efficiency, short code paths, clean & simple APIs, ability to properly exploit the hardware, etc. etc. I'd have to agree - but won't X's ability to carry display traffic from one machine to another be sorely missed by some people ? I seem to recall reading something about shims for that, but I wonder quite how well it would work (more reading to do). Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
