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Originally posted by uid313 View PostThen so be it.
Just strip out everything that can be stripped out, and if all GTK and Qt applications still work, and almost nothing of X is left, then that is just good, right?
Then the codebase will be smaller, it will be easier to maintain, quicker to compile, easier to fix bugs, and everything will be great.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by Ericg View Post<...> So just "taking out the old stuff" does not necessarily work. Certain parts of the stack WOULD have to be redesigned and rewritten to make sure the code is clean at the end.
it wouldnt work nor be enough, when looking at the at the "X12" proposal (or the "Why X is not our ideal window system" paper), you realize that certain aspects of X are "less than ideal" (when not straight out broken) at the core protocol level (like the 16 bit unsigned dimension / 16 bit signed coordinate model allowing for 32K x 32K pixmaps with 3/4 of their surface unaddressable - or the drag and drop and clipboard model..)
and that if you want a sane and modern infrastructure (especially, one accomodating GPU's as first class citizens) what remains after taking parts away also need to undergo significant rethinking ( at which point it becomes something which is not X any more...)
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Originally posted by make_adobe_on_Linux! View PostI got this thread when looking for Xorg & Wayland alternatives (first page of Google). I'm guessing this turned out to be a dead end?
It was and is extensively used, and X11 have been around for decades.
The X11 protocol was designed in old times when different things were expected from computers, as such it manages much more than just displaying pixels, it also deals with fonts, drawing shapes, and much more.
There also existed some used proprietary implementations of the X11 protocol, some claiming better performance by forgoing the client/server architecture.
Over 20 years ago, Sun also tried their own stuff with SunView and NeWS. NeWS was on PostScript. I think maybe Apple might have gone with the PostScript approach too.
X is still popular today, and the most widely used even today. Wayland is gaining traction. Wayland uses a different approach and treats everything as frames. It is a much simpler design and touts security benefits.
Canonical was pushing for their own thing called Mir, but they eventually abandoned that approach and rewrite Mir as a Wayland compositor instead.
There have been some small scales at putting up alternatives against the X Window System such as the Y Window System, but nothing have gained much traction. Some embedded devices used DirectFB instead of X.Org Server.
Here is a very good article about alternatives to X and Wayland.
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