Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] unity on wayland

[Daniel]

Another view about wayland... http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ubuntu_embraces_unity_and_wayland_or_gnu_linux_exciting_again Daniel IMHO, the announcment was more of a push so that more people get interested in the Wayland project. Very few applications are programmed in X nowadays but usually rely on toolkits like GTK or QT anyway. Unless you need to remote applications over a network I don't see how normal users will even realize that they switched display server. There again the venerable Rasterman of enlightenment fame stated that the X server has negligable performance penalties compared to other solutions. I just think that Shuttleworth jumped the gun in going public on this for two reasons: Work on the main libraries like GTK and QT still needs to be done to first come close to feature completeness let alone performance and stability A compatability X11 layer needs to be built for applications which are pure X applications and don't rely on a toolkit to be displayed Given the current timelines, it will probably take at least 2-3 more Ubuntu releases to make its way to users. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Anton Xuereb <mewt.rea...@gmail.com> wrote: Is it just me or is this a really stupid move ? http://www.cio.com.au/article/367050/ubuntu_risky_leap_unity_wayland/ what is wayland and why would they make a ui easier for netbooks when everyone else is still on normal pcs :O _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list MLUG-list@linux.org.mt http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list MLUG-list@linux.org.mt http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list --

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