On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Torsten Giebl <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Yes but the one feature I will miss that Wayland will not have that X11 does, is network transparency (X11 forwarding and XDMCP). Maybe a new solution might be found (eg Spice) but Wayland makes life hard for projects like LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
