Originally posted by blacknova
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The reality here is X11 server over network since at least year 2000 has basically been like waypipe if you want full functionality.
Originally posted by acobar
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You talk about security POV. The default X11 protocol over network has a nice nasty problem network connection fails users non saved data goes way. This results in need xpra at least. Next any application using opengl you end up needing some from of local server because back in the pre 2000's it was clear found that even with our highspeed internet opengl buffers over X11 over network equals I need 200Gps per second and still look like crap.
Yes once you have X11 with working opengl with correction issue resistance over network results in you are running a local cut down X11 server basically waypipe.
Reality here does Wayland protocol need network transpancy in a time frame when applications are using hardware accelerated rendering. The answer is no because the process of using hardware accelerated means you cannot send that over network and you have images to compress and send over network that you need to collect after the application is done.
The reality is a network DE worked while applications were mostly software rendering stuff or pushing rendering stuff back on the X11 server that absolutely was not the best performance or power effective way or network bandwitdh way.
acobar things with X11 over network were well and truly broken well before the last few years. The lead developers tell you they broke the historic concept of X11 over network in the year 2000 and started sending buffers over network for lots of things.
Like have you guys not notice that font rendering moved in X11 from being a server side thing to being a client side thing rendered into image buffers then those buffers sent over network that was a pre 2000 change. Yes when it came to removeal the X Font Server was intentionally bugged and 99% of users did notice because they were using the client side rendering(as in at the application) then sending image buffers over the protocol..
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