Sunday, June 30, 2019

Re: Future of X.org?

Roderick writes:
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> On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
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> > You can run (local or remote) X11 applications inside of a Wayland
> > compositor.
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> The following contradicts your above assertion:
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> https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8

Wayland. The software product brought to you by the people with a FAQ containing this answer:

To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing.

followed by this question:

Why wasn't D-Bus used instead of the Wayland IPC mechanism?

and then finally this answer:

The alternative is to write a Wayland specific GL binding API, say, WaylandGL.

I don't think I'll be relying on software from such confused individuals any time soon.

Matthew

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