> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 00:59:44 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Can speed of Wayland overtake the toll of emulating X? > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:43:53AM -0700, R . wrote: > > OK, so my test drive hasn't really been "fair", as I only tested Weston and > > not other Wayland implementations. But if you guys could suggest a less > > buggy and faster implementation, then please what is it? It'll save me the > > time, rather than trying each and every one. > > > > Everything's under heavy development right now, so any comparison done > today isn't going to hold true in a month. > > In addition to Weston, EFL and GNOME both seem to be pretty far along in > implementation. KDE seems to be on track as well. At this stage my > guess is all of them need thorough testing. If you want to be an early > adopter my advice would be to pick whichever one personally interests > you, and plan to set aside a chunk of time each week to file bug > reports. Be scientific in your bug reports, learn what log files the > given D-E likes, and be prompt with follow up for re-test requests. > You'll be helping contribute to the improvement of that D-E, while > simultaneously gaining better stability and performance for your > specific hardware. > > Bryce
I was actually hoping that at least one of them would have an intensively modular system, so that codebase can be easily re-targetted to Wayland (optimizing it then wouldn't be that far behind). But, I was wrong... I guess my HummingBoard is fast enough as a development platform... > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Can speed of Wayland overtake the toll of emulating X? > > Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 00:04:42 -0700 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So I've been test driving Wayland and it has more lag than LXDE > > (understandably), and, of course, will get better... But, I'm more > > concerned with backwards compatibility (and speed) with old X clients > > (until, of course they eventually, port to Wayland). Since XWayland is > > another layer, so will inherently will add toll, but can that be completely > > overtaken by the lightness and speed of Wayland? I really need a > > minimalistic and fast desktop environment, you see... > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wayland-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >
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