Hikari 2.2 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For WayVNC, Other Features

[royce]

Back in the day we had at least 10 large corporations developing and testing things like libX11 and yet now we basically rely on a single guys hobby project? Something doesn't seem quite right.

Actually wlroots has a pretty sizeable amount of developers contributing code. And you also have mutter, kwin and weston for alternative wayland implementations.

[mdedetrich]

Both X11 and xorg made that perfectly clear a long time ago. There is a price attached to the spaghetti implementation of hacks and terrible design decisions of the past meaning that, if a solution does exist, it doesn't involve X.

This is kind of half true. X11 is only full of spaghetti hacks right now because its 30+ years old, and back then graphics technology was very different to what it is now. In the past the composition/desktop stack was very different to what it is now (both from a technology level and what people expected). However in the past 5-7 years, there hasn't really been any big changes as is evidenced by Microsofts WDDM which was introduced when vista came around and hasn't seen serious changes since then.

[birdie]

This is kind of half true. X11 is only full of spaghetti hacks right now because its 30+ years old, and back then graphics technology was very different to what it is now. In the past the composition/desktop stack was very different to what it is now (both from a technology level and what people expected). However in the past 5-7 years, there hasn't really been any big changes as is evidenced by Microsofts WDDM which was introduced when vista came around and hasn't seen serious changes since then.

I used Linux in the late 90s, so not much spaghetti code as I don't recall any differences from what I have now - and, no, I don't use compositing because I find it distacting and it also adds latency.