Phoronix: What Is The Wayland Display Server & Its Protocol?
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Originally posted by dfx. View Postyou know what this description reminds me of ? "explorer".
now i'm also afraid of Wayland anywhere outside of embedded and mobile/portable.
I'm assuming Wayland is also a State Tracker?
What I want to know is what Red Hats official stance is on the project?
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Two things:
How do the client apps talk to the server? is it in a way that could be over a network to a remote Wayland server if wanted? For things like ssh -X, and FreeNX...
Is the Window management/window decorations client side? If its client side, then that means Wayland users will see the same things windows users see when an app window hangs, or pops up a dialog, that being that they can't move the window.
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Originally posted by nerdopolis View PostIs the Window management/window decorations client side? If its client side, then that means Wayland users will see the same things windows users see when an app window hangs, or pops up a dialog, that being that they can't move the window.
The way I got it, Wayland + Compiz would make a complete desktop environment, or have I missed something?
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Originally posted by Djhg2000 View PostThe way I got it, Wayland + Compiz would make a complete desktop environment, or have I missed something?
I'm not quite in favor of Wayland - the approach is too simplicistic in my opinion. It may be usable for some kind of embedded device, or a very small desktop environment, but nowadays X.Org can be compiled into a binary small enough to run on a mobile phones, and once Wayland starts implementing some advanced features the difference will become smaller and smaller.
Some features, like network transparency, are not even possible with Wayland. This is a huge step backwards. Some other projects are also abandoning network transparency in small steps, like KDE with the new notification area, but at least there are fallbacks in place.
Maybe it would be better to just rip out all those now-unnecessary features from X.Org and streamline the protocol a bit. Most applications use a library to wrap the protocol anyways, and if the effort was coordinated with the larger distributions over an extended timeframe noone would really notice.
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostAs long as Wayland remain an application, you can still simply Ctrl+Alt+F4 and kill Wayland ... right?
I'm assuming Wayland is also a State Tracker?
What I want to know is what Red Hats official stance is on the project?
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