Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Junayeed Ahnaf
Well, Back in 2010 I heard f15 will feature experimental wayland support (from Alan Jackson AKA ajax). Anyone knows what's the latest update on that issue? Will we ever gonna see wayland replacing X? Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor -- users mailing list users@li

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:10:00 +1100 Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: > Will we ever gonna see wayland replacing X? Shhh! Don't give them ideas! :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guide

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On 21/10/12 08:10, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: Well, Back in 2010 I heard f15 will feature experimental wayland support (from Alan Jackson AKA ajax). Anyone knows what's the latest update on that issue? Will we ever gonna see wayland replacing X? http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/21/2012 09:10 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: Well, Back in 2010 I heard f15 will feature experimental wayland support (from Alan Jackson AKA ajax). Anyone knows what's the latest update on that issue? Will we ever gonna see wayland replacing X? The Wayland project is very much alive and well.

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Patrick Lists < fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 10/21/2012 09:10 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote: > >> Well, >> >> Back in 2010 I heard f15 will feature experimental wayland support (from >> Alan Jackson AKA ajax). Anyone knows what's the latest update on that

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/21/2012 06:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: [snip] I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting. What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? I'm not a developer but my guess is that X's 25 year old codebase is dragging along a tremendous amou

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:59:26 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? Loss of remote display capability? Destruction of compatibility for tens of thousands of existing applications? But it is shiny and new and written from scratch, so obvio

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:05:36 +0200 Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/21/2012 06:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > [snip] > > I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting. > > > > What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? > > I'm not a developer but my g

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Doug
On 10/21/2012 01:06 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:59:26 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? Loss of remote display capability? Destruction of compatibility for tens of thousands of existing applications? But it is shin

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Tim
Christopher Svanefalk: >> What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? Tom Horsley: > Loss of remote display capability? Destruction of compatibility > for tens of thousands of existing applications? But it is > shiny and new and written from scratch, so obviously it > is better.

RE: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Junayeed Ahnaf
The most significant change wayland will bring over X is the ability to softwares directly talking to hardwares instead of middlewares. Less hangup and stuffs. Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/21/2012 07:06 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:59:26 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? Loss of remote display capability? Destruction of compatibility for tens of thousands of existing applications? But it is shi

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/21/2012 09:59 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? http://lwn.net/Articles/517375/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol) Wayland lacks a lot of features that exist in X.org, currently. I think the idea th

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/22/2012 01:31 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/21/2012 09:59 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? http://lwn.net/Articles/517375/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol) Wayland lacks a lot of features that e

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:05:36 +0200 Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/21/2012 06:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > [snip] > > I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting. > > > > What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? > > I'm not a developer but my g

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:18:36AM +1030, Tim wrote: > Christopher Svanefalk: > >> What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? > > Tom Horsley: > > Loss of remote display capability? Destruction of compatibility > > for tens of thousands of existing applications? But it is > > shi

Re: Whatever happened to Wayland?

2012-10-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:40:49PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 10/21/2012 01:06 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:59:26 +0200 > >Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > > > >>What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? > >Loss of remote display capability? Destruction of compatib