On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:27:08PM -0500, ext [email protected] wrote: > The X server contains lots and lots of crufty old code going back to the > 1980s that nobody uses and nobody (including the X developers) wants to > maintain, but is required to claim to be an X server. One option is: > > 1) Move all the useful modern stuff out to the Linux kernel and separate > libraries. > 2) Make all the crufty old stuff a separate piece dynamically loaded only when > necessary. > 3) Make a new minimal library to allow all the useful stuff from X to be used > as efficiently and maintainably as possible. > > That is what the X developers are doing, and that new library is called > Wayland. > > > > So what do you think? Accurate enough? Likely to cause fewer people to > panic?
it's not good. Anyway, what's your motivation to try to find a simple description of wayland? We have a simple one here http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ and a bit extended in the arch page http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html. The FAQ page details other information also. Cheers, Tiago _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
