Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Nov 9 15:57:06 UTC 2010


On 11/9/10 7:23 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people point out that
> things like network apps actually matter, the default path may be to do
> what will look nice on a local desktop (for the record, I can see full
> screen tearing-free graphics both using upstream Intel and upstream ATI
> drivers - one on a laptop, one dual headed desktop - just fine already).
> 
> Like Rich, I enjoy being able to start e.g. rawhide apps running on a
> virtual machine and have them render to my local X server, or start a
> second X and have an entire gnome-session running from a rawhide "box"
> sitting on my virt server. Also, although there are other ways to do it,
> my typical use of virt-manager these days is by forwarded X over ssh.

Perhaps you should take your concerns to a mailing list the Wayland
developers actually read and participate on.  Banging on about it here,
when nobody in Fedora has actually suggested we make use of Wayland,
seems like a big waste of everybody's time.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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