Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

[Jon Masters]

On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> > On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > >> Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) said:
> > >>>> Has anyone looked into bringing Wayland to Fedora? If not this might be the
> > >>>> right time getting involved in the discussion.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> > >>>
> > >>> What's the implication for people who absolutely need to use
> > >>> X applications remotely?
> > >>
> > >> Use VNC. (Or your similar protocol of choice.)
> > >
> > > That's not a serious alternative.
> > 
> >  From what I've read so far you can run rootless X as a Wayland client so 
> > you can just use your remote X apps like you did in the past next to native 
> > Wayland apps. Also if there is a real interest in this feature then this 
> > could be implemented for Wayland it would just not be part of the core.
> 
> 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.

Jon.