They are. These types of questions are now starting to show up on many
forums. I also found a whole thread on this over at the Fedora
development forum. They were also asking these same types of things and
much more in technical detail. All of which is good. For something
that is going to have a huge impact on the Linux community I think
getting input from all quarters is absolutely essential. I think a lot
of this Wayland stuff got started only because people were frustrated
with the pace of changes by X. But despite some of the issues
concerning X the X guys have done a good job of maintaining
compatibility for a huge number of systems for many years. And when
you're doing that, the pace has to be deliberate and considered.
Regards,
Gerry
On 11/07/2010 03:23 PM, brian mullan wrote:
Gerry
Good questions, but I think they would be best asked on the forums
related to the projects (ubuntu and wayland)?
Message: 2
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:14:01 -0400
From: Gerry Reno <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] How Wayland will handle X client & server
Message-ID: <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On 11/06/2010 08:44 AM, brian mullan wrote:
> The Wayland FreeDesktop.org site
> <http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html>
>
> gives a good description of how Wayland will work and how it is
> supposed to support legacy X client/server transparently.
>
>
>
Having read through that site nowhere does it say that the Wayland
protocol is a network-aware protocol with the capabilities of the
X-protocol. It appears that in order to use full network-aware remote
displays that it still relies on an X-server and X-client. If that is
the case then there's not much to see here. Just maybe some
undetermined performance improvement but at what expense? There are no
feature-by-feature or performance comparisons offered. Just a
presentation of "oh look, we can wire up some existing things
differently without using X".
So let me ask, where does the GPU acceleration processing take
place? If Wayland can support transparent network display clients
using the
X-protocol (so we don't have to reinvent the world) and make use of
local (client) GPU hardware to speed rendering then this would be
great. But I haven't read that yet so I'm not very impressed at the
moment.
Regards,
Gerry
_______________________________________________
X2go-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
_______________________________________________
X2go-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
