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The Process For Eventually Releasing X.Org Server 1.21
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Originally posted by Anvil View Postsounds to me pretty much like Wayland, will we see anymore wayland releases anytime soon or the future? ( thats up in the air ) i think Xserver will survive whereas Wayland IMO is almost another Titanic
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Originally posted by boxie View Post
A separate XWayland build that has only minimal (and restrictive) set of features would be cool. It could reduce attack surface and reduce the amount of stuff required.
make it require a modern hardware set (GLAMOR / libinput etc) to keep size down through feature restriction.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI don't know, fundamentally anything that restricts the feature set or requires newer hardware is limiting the usefullness of something that is primarily sticking around for backwards compatibility purposes. There's certainly a tradeoff to discuss there, but I think it's going to be tough to get people to agree to do that when they could just leave it alone in maintenance mode.
I understand that it is going to hang around (like Python2) for a long time, but could be a gate on what makes it into/gets removed from a distro - a minimum version
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostGLX? Look. Why would you want to remove something 95% of applications still use?! (furthermore, please tell me how can I wait for VBlank without swapping buffers in EGL)
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Originally posted by boxie View Post
It could be used as a forcing function to get people to update their apps against newer toolkit versions/wayland.
I understand that it is going to hang around (like Python2) for a long time, but could be a gate on what makes it into/gets removed from a distro - a minimum version
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Originally posted by nanonyme View PostUhm, the entire protocol was just redesigned from scratch as HTTP2 a short while ago. Bad analogy.
In fact, you can track it's history back through SPDY which was initially announced right around the same time that Wayland was. You could very roughly compare http1 and x11 dates too, if you wanted to extend things even further.
All of which is ignoring the fact that my post was obviously sarcastic and not meant to be thought too deeply about.Last edited by smitty3268; 16 May 2019, 03:16 AM.
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