On 11/09/2010 04:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
And what happens when all the apps are native Wayland apps and none of those can be run remotely?
If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows.
+1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applications from my cold dead hands. I agree that I see this ongoing trend to move toward things that are fluffy and pretty at the cost of flexibility.
AIUI the Grand Plan is for everyone to write apps in GTK+ and Qt (which is more or less the case already), and for GTK+ and Qt to be compatible with *both* Wayland and X. Again AIUI, there's no impediment to this in the design of Wayland and it's actually what Wayland's designers expect to happen, in order to make sure things still work on platforms where Wayland isn't available, and to deal with exactly this kind of case.
So I think the future vision is that if you're running on your system you get a shiny Wayland-y version, and if you run something via ssh -x you get a slightly less pretty X version. And all the Hard Stuff happens in the background and you don't really have to care about it.
Well, that would be an excellent result.
All it takes is someone who is a member of the cabal (TINC) to confirm this, and everyone will be happy.
Andrew.