Hello !
> just a short question: Should we be concerned about Ubuntu (and possibly > others) switching to wayland? > > In the forum I found one answer from Matthias saying that wayland is > backward compatible to X11. But now I found some articles (in other > groups) saying, that this is only partially true. > > And when will the first distributions abandon X11 (if at all)? I found > answers saying: Could be in 1 year, or could be 4 years. > > Bernhard > > BTW: I personally don't need or want wayland. Wayland will have an X11 server running as a Wayland client. Even if it not had something like this, getting X11 working on a system is pretty easy. If we use wayland in the future or something different, this time the transition will be very smooth, because of the way X11 is designed. This is NOT a troll post, it is just my personal opinion : I strongly believe we need something new and different than X11, because of todays 3D desktop usage. If this new and different, would be Wayland, i cannot say. Personally i compare X11 to the BIOS in your standard PC. It works, but it is in no way designed for todays needs. X11 was built in times, when a button was a two color rectangle with text in the center, when a computer was expensive and the only way to lower cost, was the terminal idea. Today even a lowend GPU is very powerfull, the modern desktop uses 3D, it uses Alpha Blending, shader effects .... A desktop needs rich multi media apis, not only for gfx, but also for i18n and other stuff. Every major GUI toolkit today has their own implementation of it, this is unnecessary and bloat. The linux idea of having small components with very specialised functions, really backfired, at least in the desktop area. Apple is really WAY ahead of linux and even BeOS is. CU _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
