Phoronix: A Clutter Backend For The Wayland Display Server
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Great ! Qt is on the way, GTK still needs to get cleaner(http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/ClientSideWindows).
This should definitely become the new Linux's graphic server.
I'm waiting for a friend to receive his EeePC (intel videocard) to try it out !
What do you think about it ?
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Originally posted by Pfanne View Posti dont really know how all this works, but will all of this just work with our current drivers?
It is a bit tough to try it out at the moment, I'm really craving to see it on my computer. But it doesn't compile at the moment (Radeon), even with the latest kernel + experimental radeon KMS .
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Originally posted by M?P?F View PostNo, it won't unless you're running a 2.6.29 kernel and using the latest Intel graphic drivers (Supporting and using GEM and KMS).
It is a bit tough to try it out at the moment, I'm really craving to see it on my computer. But it doesn't compile at the moment (Radeon), even with the latest kernel + experimental radeon KMS .
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Wayland won't be usable any time soon
Originally posted by Michael View PostNope, not for a long while at least.
But, Kristian also thinks Wayland could become the new graphic server. Xorg would run in nested mode if needed. It will be great to have this plugin-based graphic server running on a cellphone and on desktops.
I can wait for a Wayland back-end to Qt !
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I'm really looking forward to the GTK port - I'm thinking of installing Gentoo, Arch or Fedora on my Macbook to try Wayland out as it is, and it will be great when you can run some applications on it without having to have them running in an X server.
I think Wayland looks really promising as a replacement for X, and hopefully in two or three years there will be enough driver and toolkit support for some distributions to start adopting it by default!
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