On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:41:49 -0600 [email protected] wrote: > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 04:24:46 AM Nick Boyce wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:20:24 -0600 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 09:38:47 PM Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > > > > Wayland is coming. > > > > > > I welcome the change. X11 needs to be retired. [...] > > but won't X's ability to carry display traffic from one > > machine to another be sorely missed by some people ? [...] > I personally don't see why that feature is very important. Maybe some > people really like it, but I see that as one of the cruft features of > X11 that has badly needed to be taken out.
Well .. I've always thought it's a cool feature, to be able to run a program on one machine that displays its window(s) on a different machine - but I admit that over many years, in many different projects, working for a variety of employers, I've never once had the use case for that feature :) > Definitely not worth the development man-hours to maintain to please > a small minority where remote desktop is more efficient on the > network. I guess you're right there. Cheers 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]
