On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:30 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Marco Calistri wrote:
Hi List,
I heard that Ubuntu is next to switch to Wayland display server for future releases and that will drop X server.
According to wikipedia, Shuttleworth said "... that unspecified future versions of Ubuntu (not 11.04) will use Wayland as the display server".
What about openSUSE gurus opinion about that; is there a similar forecast in SUSE world as well?
Why not, it's perfectly safe forecast to make.
Thanks for the interesting thread. I hadn't heard of Wayland.
It's a complete non-starter for me since it doesn't offer network transparency. And I haven't found any need or desire for a compositing window manager yet.
(yes, of course it could be running underneath whatever is providing my network transparency)
So, it provides an X API/ABI? Or will GTK/Qt etc all get rewritten against a new API? Rewriting them to be Wayland clients would be no small task! I see that there is a QT port. The nice little lines drawn from the Wayland Compositor in the second chart do not have X anything at the other end. OTOH, if the real use scenario is really the final chart, what is really changed? One compositor is replaced with another. The X server and X clients still exist. The difference is the connection between the compositor and the kernel. Perhaps the wayland method is faster/cleaner? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org