Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the original x11 protocol designers thought 8 bits would be enough for

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:08:10PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: GTK+ backends are linked in at this time. One of the things that we will need to address before switching to wayland-with-X-fallback-for-remote-or-poor-hw becomes a realistic possibility. Well, I don't think that will ever be feasible for Qt apps (which, like it or

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:54:02 +, Pierre Carrier wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:01, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: I despair of making *nix input people understand that LANGAGE ≠ INPUT Please stop trying to derive one from the other, they are *distinct* and one can

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 21:05 -0500, Ding Yi Chen a écrit : Well, actually input methods can do that. :-) They know exactly what language you are typing, and some do basic spelling check in the language they support. Sorry, but no. Appart from the well known stability problems, which

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-13 Thread Pierre Carrier
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:01, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: I despair of making *nix input people understand that LANGAGE ≠ INPUT Please stop trying to derive one from the other, they are *distinct* and one can (and often does) use a non-english layout to type English.

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-11 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Is Fedora for developers or what? We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of tearing when scrolling in a browser window? Well

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds now and then. It seems to

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 11/09/2010 01:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: X will run as a Wayland client. That means all applications that support X will be able to run remotely without change. Since QT and GTK both run on X and virtually all apps out there are programmed to use QT and/or GTK for most people

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:03:25AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:59 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:35:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: What kind of attack are you trying to prevent, and how do you envision that interacting with the window system? The classic is a hostile remote binary which secretly maps

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 09:21:24 Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 11/09/2010 01:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: X will run as a Wayland client. That means all applications that support X will be able to run remotely without change. Since QT and GTK both run on X and virtually all apps

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 09:03 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK although

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com)

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 10:05 AM, Jon Masters wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:50:15PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Really, I have no problem using my keyboard, Given your location and native language, I suspect your keyboard layout is en_US, in which case this isn't much of a

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:09 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/09/2010 10:05 AM, Jon Masters wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jesse Keating
On 11/9/10 8:23 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: I've seen the responses on the Wayland list, and it's always Wayland isn't intended to do that. So, there's no point raising objections there. The risk is that Wayland gets developed and a bunch of key applications in Fedora get broken. The Wayland

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: And what happens when all the apps are native Wayland apps and none of those can be run remotely? If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:29 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:50:15PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Really, I have no problem using my keyboard, Given your location and native language, I

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 03:57 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On 11/9/10 7:23 AM, Jon Masters wrote: At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people point out that things like network apps actually matter, the default path may be to do what will look nice on a local desktop (for the record, I can see

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applications from my cold dead hands. I agree that I see this ongoing trend to move toward things that are fluffy and

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applications from my cold dead hands. I agree that

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 11:44 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I think we'd like to see the Fedora community figure out its position on the subject— so that it can tell the Wayland developers If you continue on this track, then as things stand, Fedora will not be making it a part of the default

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people I object strongly to this perception that nobody involved in developing desktop technologies has any idea what server admins want. What we're seeing is the development of

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:25 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people I object strongly to this perception that nobody involved in developing desktop technologies has any idea what server

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 05:13 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 11:44 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I think we'd like to see the Fedora community figure out its position on the subject— so that it can tell the Wayland developers If you continue on this track, then as things stand, Fedora

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 04:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: And what happens when all the apps are native Wayland apps and none of those can be run remotely? If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. +1 for bringing these points

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Gregory Maxwell (gmaxw...@gmail.com) said: So, You are, in short, scared. ... I think this is a rather unfair characterization. I don't know about that. Something new is discussed, and not everyone understands it, and they have concerns about how it may handle some particular cases.

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: Then why are people already calling for the rejection of Wayland even though Wayland is still far from being finished and hasn't even touched Fedora yet. raising concerns != screaming the sky is falling

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:27 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: B/c the perception I get is that only the desktop-oriented folks know what users want or need and the server-oriented folks do not. I think that's in error, too. In fact, us

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:40 +, Andrew Haley wrote: I'm wondering of I'm reading this correctly. The downsides that have been described are quite severe in contrast to the possible benefits. It is, of course, possible that a mistake has been made, and the acute loss of functionality is

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 19:12 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Adam Jacksona...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: wayland...when they feel its ready. By introducing it for discussion before they were ready to engage in that discussion you've actually made it more difficult for the discussion to move forward as you've taken away their

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible than X over the network, since the natural remoting level (surface updates) is basically

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: - All my X apps have to be ported! Yes, if they want to be native wayland clients, they do. Minor correction (I think?) - the apps don't really need to be ported, the toolkits do. Once GTK+ is ported to Wayland, fr'instance, all GTK+

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible than X over the network, since

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible than X over the network, since

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: And where does that sit in the architecture? Looking over the architecture page (2nd figure) it looks like the only way to get the kind of network transparency that X has under Wayland is to put the network between the Wayland

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 06:43 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:40 +, Andrew Haley wrote: I'm wondering of I'm reading this correctly. The downsides that have been described are quite severe in contrast to the possible benefits. It is, of course, possible that a mistake has been

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I've mostly been watching here and I think people have been fairly clearly about their concerns: Network transparency is important to them, and they understand that

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:54 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: - All my X apps have to be ported! Yes, if they want to be native wayland clients, they do. Minor correction (I think?) - the apps don't really need to be ported, the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: And where does that sit in the architecture? Looking over the architecture page (2nd figure) it looks like the only way to get the kind of network transparency that X

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:19 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:01 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: And I'm saying you can get the network remoting effect you like in X, in Wayland. It's not built into the local Wayland

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:12 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: To the extent that those apps call (and link) only against the toolkit and not against an assumed backend, sure. The strict linking changes in F12 or F13 or whichever it was helped a lot with this, and gtk3 will help more, but to pick an

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:24 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: And where does that sit in the architecture?

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: OK, so it's likely that everything will just continue to work remotely, and people won't experience any problems.  And they won't have to run VNC just to get their favourite app to display remotely. If this had been explained

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com said: - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a VNC-like remoting is a significant loss for server environments compared to X-like remoting. With an

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:34 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com said: - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a VNC-like remoting is a significant loss

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:28:10PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:24 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:53:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: well, I imagine you know more about this than me, but I run with Japanese input support at least occasionally, and my impression is that a lot of it is a fragile tower necessitated by the fact that the deep underlying stuff was

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:43:06PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a modest amount of additional wayland protocol (or just inter-client conventions) you can do

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds now and then. It seems to recover and I can't see any obvious log messages around the time of the freeze. It does survive suspend/resume, which is great. My

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 07:33 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: Then why are people already calling for the rejection of Wayland even though Wayland is still far from being finished and hasn't even touched Fedora yet. raising

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:03:38PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:43:06PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a modest amount of

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:55 +, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible than X over the network,

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds now and then. It seems to recover and I can't see any obvious log messages around the time of the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:17:25PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: The UX will probably be somewhere between ssh -Y, vncserver(1), and: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651591 Hopefully with a better security model than 'ssh -Y'? If this has Xpra-like functionality (i.e. screen for X)

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: No. I'm sorry but it's fundamentaly unfair to hold me responsible for the behaviour of others. If you think this shouldn't have been brought up fine but if others decide to draw premature conclusions from this

Re: nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
At least it's winter now and a hot netbook is less of a problem than in the summer. On 9 Nov 2010 21:22, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I'm using the experimental 3d now with gno... You're probably not. nouveau basically has no

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:26 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:17:25PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: The UX will probably be somewhere between ssh -Y, vncserver(1), and: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651591 Hopefully with a better security model than 'ssh

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:35:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: The UX will probably be somewhere between ssh -Y, vncserver(1), and: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651591 Hopefully with a better security model than 'ssh -Y'? What kind of attack are you trying to prevent, and

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 09.11.10 04:05, Jon Masters (jonat...@jonmasters.org) wrote: From what I've read so far you can run rootless X as a Wayland client so you can just use your remote X apps like you did in the past next to native Wayland apps. Also if there is a real interest in this feature

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 08:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I've mostly been watching here and I think people have been fairly clearly about their concerns: Network

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Lennart Poettering píše v Út 09. 11. 2010 v 23:07 +0100: I think you aren't even aware how broken this mix and match network approach of classic X11 is. The semantics of D-Bus and other IPCs in a distributed X11 session has never been clearly defined, and all kinds of integration between apps

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 09.11.10 23:14, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: Lennart Poettering píše v Út 09. 11. 2010 v 23:07 +0100: I think you aren't even aware how broken this mix and match network approach of classic X11 is. The semantics of D-Bus and other IPCs in a distributed X11 session has

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
That's true, using freenx to access a whole desktop works well with xfce and no sound. I can't imagine it working so well if trying to run gnome-shell, sound etc remotely. I get the impression a lot of the current desktop infrastructure doesn't make sense when accessed remotely, eg if I ssh'ed

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 09 novembre 2010 à 14:19 -0500, Adam Jackson a écrit : When I say vnc-like I mean let's scrape the pixels out of the rendering buffer and shove them over the wire. VNC itself is rooted, but vnc-like remoting can be rooted or rootless. In wayland the fundamental object of

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 10:33 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: No. I'm sorry but it's fundamentaly unfair to hold me responsible for the behaviour of others. If you think this shouldn't have been brought up fine but if others

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 14:23:54 Björn Persson wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: % ldd `which gcalctool` | grep libX libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x05f1a000) [snip] ldd appears to resolve dependencies recursively. I typically use readelf to see what a program links to. Then

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Really, I have no problem using my keyboard, Given your location and native language, I suspect your keyboard layout is en_US, in which case this isn't much of a surprise - it's one of the simplest cases (it requires one of the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:14:57PM +, Pierre Carrier wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:51, Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: With virtualization I have more Linux machines than ever (about 50 in active use at last count).  All on my local 1GB network.  Consequently I use X to them

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? Because those are just the examples I know where X11 has been blocking progress for *years*.

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: First I think you should probably head over to the Wayland mailing list and get involved there. That's something I also recommend to Richard because if you want certain features to be present now is a good time to make

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 11/6/2010 11:28, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: As for the if all apps are ported to Wayland I will not be able to use them remotely anymore I think this is bogus. Nowadays virtually all application aren't X application but gtk/qt applications and the toolkits tend to support different

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 02:43, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Richard W.M. Jones

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:57:27AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of tearing when scrolling in a browser window? [I do *not* see any of I actually read it as we want to ditch features that were groundbreaking in 1975 since

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 15:48 +, Ben Boeckel wrote: Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. I was doing that back in November[1]. It depends on your hardware. Works on some cards,

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:00 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: You mention gnome shell but not nouveau, how do you enable the missing 3d support for Nouveau? And does it only work for a subset of hardware? I'd be interested to try it. Lately I just get: Accelerated 3D graphics is not available

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, how do you enable the missing 3d support for Nouveau? It came with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. I just wanted to say thanks, I am running with this now, it seems to be certainly more than adequate ;-) to run gnome shell. No more akmod-nvidia for a while! -Cam -- devel mailing list

nouveau gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-07 Thread Alex Hudson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:00 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: You mention gnome shell but not nouveau, how do you enable the missing 3d support for Nouveau? There's an Mesa package labelled experimental you need to install. I don't know what the subset of hardware it works for is, but my Quadro NVS

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? Because those are

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/06/2010 07:39 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: First I think you should probably head over to the Wayland mailing list and get involved there. That's something I also recommend to Richard because if you want certain

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? Because those

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com) said: Has anyone looked into bringing Wayland to Fedora? If not

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. I wonder if there will be someone saying (when all the apps are native Wayland apps) If I wanted to step back to the pre-stetic* era, I'd run X I get the impression that comparing current Fedora and Linux in general running on varied

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:20:08AM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. I wonder if there will be someone saying (when all the apps are native Wayland apps) If I wanted to step back to the pre-stetic* era, I'd run X I get the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
Is Fedora for developers or what? If it is exclusively for developers with the exclusion of general purpose features such as web browsing, photo management, and multimedia consumption then I'll have to find a more general purpose OS. I count myself as a developer but concede that I have a life

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:51:37AM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: Is Fedora for developers or what? If it is exclusively for developers with the exclusion of general purpose features such as web browsing, photo management, and multimedia consumption then I'll have to find a more general

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. Indeed. It's not the point that it's possible or not. I could do much of that on a Windows 3.11 machine... Be honest with yourself, is it every bit as good as the experience

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:51:32PM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. Indeed. It's not the point that it's possible or not. I could do much of that on a Windows 3.11 machine...

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Is Fedora for developers or what? We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of tearing when scrolling in a browser window? Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Is Fedora for developers or what? We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of tearing when scrolling in a browser window?

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:51:32PM +, Camilo Mesias wrote: I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. Indeed. It's not the point that

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Pierre Carrier
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:51, Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: With virtualization I have more Linux machines than ever (about 50 in active use at last count).  All on my local 1GB network.  Consequently I use X to them and to other physical machines _all the time_. If there is no way

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
Out of interest, do you use individual shells/terms or something that provides a more remote desktop like experience? I use ssh -Y.  Anything that sits in a huge window showing an entire desktop-in-a-desktop is so obviously the wrong way to do it, from both a usability and efficiency

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Ben Boeckel
Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. I was doing that back in November[1]. --Ben [1]http://blipper.dev.benboeckel.net/one-soap-box/2009/11/03/gnome-day-2-gnome-shell/ -- devel mailing

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? Because those are just the examples I know where X11 has been blocking progress for *years*. I'm sure there are lots of others. (And in any case wasn't evdev

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Boeckel maths...@gmail.com wrote: Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. I was doing that back in November[1]. --Ben

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Ben Boeckel
Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Boeckel maths...@gmail.com wrote: Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. I was doing that back in

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