On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:56:44 -0400 Christopher Stacy via X11-users <x11-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> I think the Linux community has decided to abandon the X Window > System entirely. It's dead on every platform. So, yes, you are doomed. That might be true for the Linux *desktop* community, in the sense that Wayland doesn't need X11. But running X11 atop Wayland is no problem, theoretically. Look for X11 applications in your favorite package manager. I think you'll find the demise of X much exaggerated. The Linux desktop community faced a serious technical deficit years ago. While every other GUI -- notably Windows and macOS -- supported shared-memory communication and sophsiticated font/color/shading (and audio) features, X11 did not. Highly interactive applications -- especially games -- couldn't be written for Linux using any standard Linux desktop GUI. The choice was to upgrade X or create an alternative. Wayland aspires to be that alternative. It includes an X11 shim. We could debate how good it is, but I think it's somewhere north of "dead". X11 meanwhile acquired quite a bit of client-side rendering technology, including anti-aliased fonts and, in Cairo, a display API based on the Postscript model. X11 PDF viewers consequently work quite well. > The days of transmitting drawing commands to a remote window server > are over. One word for you: HTML. That's the same thing, except that the "drawing commands" are encoded as text, which the browser interprets and converts into "remote window server" commands. If bandwidth were so plentiful that screen copying and clever algorithms were all we needed, HTML would be dead, too. (I won't mention differening screen resolutions and sizes, which is why the local display server was invented.) --jkl _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list (X11-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
