On 07/31/2014 10:43 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/31/2014 11:20 AM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 31/07/14 a las #4, Anton Aylward escribió:
On 07/31/2014 11:03 AM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
switching to wayland is a shitload of work
So I wonder ... Is there anyone trying to implement Qt or GTK without the need for all the X-Widnwws layering?
QT5 and GTK3 are well under way and working. There are already commercial products using the QT5 version.
Another has been talking about bloat as in items in /usr/local, but that just ignores the bloat of the items in /usr/lib, doesn't it? But what really counts is the bloat at the lower levels of the graphics stack, since its runtime that matters, not what's sitting there on disk waiting to be used.
Oh no, it's much better than than. We get to keep both X and Wayland for the foreseeable future as Xapplications will continue to need X, there is currently no remote rendering with Wayland, etc.. So in a sense, we are just adding Wayland compositing to what we have for now... http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html Seems freedesktop.org has been at the forefront of both *pain* and *progress* for Linux over the past several years. systemd, wayland, ... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org