On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 12:10 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
What are the benefits of moving to Wayland?
I rather enjoyed the recent talk [1] given by Daniel Stone six weeks ago at LCA. I'd encourage anyone interested in learning more about Wayland who doesn't already know everything about it to watch the video [2]. [1]: http://lca2013.linux.org.au/schedule/30256/view_talk?day=friday [2]: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/The_real_story_behind_Wayland_and_X.mp4 Most of the talk is describing all the things that have piled up as a result of ~4 decades of decisions in the design and implementation of the X server [I'll apologize for encouraging you to watch something where there are lots of interjections from the audience that didn't make it to the audio track, but the room was full of X hackers - Kieth Packard and Carl Worth, that this list would know. Others, too] The end result is that [people who would know] having described all of X's shortcomings, Daniel then describe what Wayland *is*. It didn't take very long. And there in lies the answer to Martyn's question, I think. You can draw your own conclusions, but it's pretty impressive when people can step back from their work, learn from it, and head in a new direction. I surely can't wait for GTK and GNOME to be fully standing on this (much thinner) infrastructure. AfC Sydney
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