Running Wayland: It Works, But A Lot Of Work Remains

[johnc]

Jesus, and I thought people here were emotionally attached to OpenGL.

Really, are the X11 gnomes coming to your guys' houses and blowing you in the middle of the night if you promise to never use another low-level windowing API?

Yeah, Wayland has a ways to go. The people in charge of it know that. The people in charge of X.org know it too. Largely because those two groups are comprised of many of the same people.

...from the guy who gets blown by Ballmer every night.

[uid313]

If they run faster, that's good.

I just hope that down the road they won't drop xWayland....that will a big no no.

Why not?
Xwayland may be needed initially (because some apps make X calls).
But down the road, almost all applications will run fine without X, I guess.

[pingufunkybeat]

Jesus, and I thought people here were emotionally attached to OpenGL.

Really, are the X11 gnomes coming to your guys' houses and blowing you in the middle of the night if you promise to never use another low-level windowing API?

Yeah, Wayland has a ways to go. The people in charge of it know that. The people in charge of X.org know it too. Largely because those two groups are comprised of many of the same people.

Sounds awesome.

Call me when it's ready yawn

[AJSB]

Keep in mind that this is just an early technology demo; this stuff isn't going to be forced down our throats just yet. And when it is, the end user (hopefully) won't notice any negative side effects. Remember that X applications run atop xwayland faster than on the native x-server.

If they run faster, that's good.

I just hope that down the road they won't drop xWayland....that will a big no no.

[AnonymousCoward]

Now if you clicked the above video, here's a page break so you can get a beer to preserve your sanity

LOL. Do US teenagers actually enjoy listening to this auto-tuned crap?

[curaga]

Jesus, and I thought people here were emotionally attached to OpenGL.

Really, are the X11 gnomes coming to your guys' houses and blowing you in the middle of the night if you promise to never use another low-level windowing API?

Yeah. They're also baking us cookies and pies.

[edmon]

X is dead. Long live Wayland!

[uid313]

Why are GTK and Qt not themed?
Looks awful when not!

Also, the GTK theme that is shown is the default GTK theme, blame the devs of that project for the default looking terrible.

I wish GTK and Qt improved their default themes.

[adrianovic]

Remember that X applications run atop xwayland faster than on the native x-server.

how do you know? i mean, are there benchmarks somewhere public? because that sounds amazing, if that is true.

[mark45]

Jesus, and I thought people here were emotionally attached to OpenGL...

Jesus, I still find people emotionally attached to DirectX, even after Valve showed GL is faster. Those guys still keep trolling about DX being alledgedly snappier and stuff, hopeless people.

Side note, an improved clip of Rebecca's Friday: