X.Org & Wayland Can Both Co-Exist & Continue Marching Forward

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org & Wayland Can Both Co-Exist & Continue Marching Forward

While many view Wayland as the future of the Linux desktop, the X.Org Server shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon as beyond needing it for legacy X11 applications, there's still much innovation happening within the conventional xorg-server as shown by the progress it's made in 2014...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg3NDM

[uid313]

They need to adopt libinput, and drop xkb, xinput, libxinput, and all those.

They need to adopt DRI3 everywhere, and drop DRI2 and DRI.

They need to drop lots of old stuff. Burn it with fire!
Remove all dead code!

[Awesomeness]

no tier-one Linux distribution is yet shipping the X11 alternative by default

Fedora 21 ships Gnome Wayland by default. It seems Michael is confused between ?shipped by default? and ?active by default?.
A regular F21 installations does install a Gnome Wayland session, along with Gnome X11 and Gnome Classic sessions.

[daniels]

They need to adopt libinput, and drop xkb, xinput, libxinput, and all those.

totally unrelated. libinput could be a backend used by the server to communicate with input devices themselves. xinput is a protocol to communicate window system specific information to clients (e.g. which window the pointer is in - not a concept libinput can have), just as wayland has its wl_keyboard/wl_pointer/wl_touch protocols. xkb covers interpretation of keyboard events (not something libinput does/should do), something which wayland partially reuses.

[MartinN]

xkb covers interpretation of keyboard events (not something libinput does/should do), something which wayland partially reuses.

IIRC, isn't XKB mostly data (keyboard, locales) files (i.e. no shared lib dependencies), no?