Den 30-07-2013 11:56, Mike Gabriel skrev: > Hi Pascal, > > On Di 30 Jul 2013 10:59:00 CEST Pascal d'Hermilly wrote: > >> Den 30-07-2013 10:17, Mike Gabriel skrev: >>>> >>>> However quite important is that with Qt5 the "native" qt_graphicssystem is >>>> being removed. Will x2go work with qt5 application? >>>> >>> >>> Probably not or if then very slow. X2Go does not handle desktop shell that >>> do the rendering server-side very well. With widget toolkits that do the >>> rendering on the server (as opposed to pushing X objects over the network >>> and leave the rendering to the client) X2Go does not perform so well. >> According to >> http://vizzzion.org/blog/2013/07/the-next-kubuntu-graphics-stack/ Kubuntu >> 14.10 will ship with KDE Plasma Workspaces 2 (QT5) that depends on wayland. >> Will x2go be relevant in this setup? the name suggests a dependency of X. >> Obviously X will be around for a fair amount of time, but the new KDE will >> not run on it. >> > > X2Go only works with applications that run as X11 clients. The x2goagent > binary is an X-Server that the applications connect to when started. > > I cannot image that Qt5 fully lacks X11 support. Only thing is that Ubuntu > migrates to Mir (not Wayland AFAIK) and heavily pushses resources into Qt > development (as Unity and Unity Greeter will move to Qt as widget framework). QT5 does not lack X11 support, but as I understand it it will remove the "graphicssystem" arg and raster through mesa.
Also I wrote something wrong. KDE Plasma workspaces 2 support, not depend on, wayland. Sorry for the misinformation. //Pascal > > If the upstream people of KDE decide for that path, then X2Go will have to > make it without KDE. > > Greets, > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ X2Go-Dev mailing list X2Go-Dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
