On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 18:04:20 +0200 patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Ahoy! > > Do you believe that Wayland will replace X11 one > day? ;) Yes — and it will be horrible. The worst part of Wayland it encourages you to write your own display server with all of features in one single process. X11 is really bad, but at least there are not too many implementations of it, and therefor the implementations are less shitty. A display server protocol should to encourage you to implement the display server in multiple processed that can be swap out whilst running, and extending the functionality by add servers that listens to or modifies messages between servers. The display server project all maintain is set of reference implementations. Anyone that wants to change the a part of the display server can than write a replacement for a specific server. In Wayland, if you want to add new functionality or changing the functionality, you must do so for all implementations of Wayland. If someone else wants do change some other thing, she must do some in all implementations, including all duplicates you made. Therefor, Wayland does not really allow you to add or change functionality. You must write your own compositor that behaves exactly as you want it to, and this includes the window manager, a part that is not built into X11 display servers. > > Besides, don't you believe that Ubuntu may have time to > time some negative influence on Linux phylosophy? Not sure I'm parsing your question correctly, but I don't see Ubuntu damaging the philosophy more than (almost) any other distribution. The most detrimental thing to the philosophy are programs written to be GUI programs rather than command line programs with GUI frontends. > > Quote: > Display server expert Daniel Stone explains what is > really happening with the future of graphical display > protocols on Linux. So far as most Linux users are > concerned, Wayland is the project that is eventually > supposed to replace the X Window System (X). by Bruce > Byfield > > Best regards, > Pat >
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