A simpler description of wayland

[Josh Leverette]

No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking anyways.

On Dec 21, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Darxus at chaosreigns.com 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?
> 
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