A simpler description of wayland

[Joakim Sindholt]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 20:43 -0500, Darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 12/22, Josh Leverette wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, Wayland is a distinct project from X.org, but it, and all the work to
> make it possible, has been done by X developers.
> 
> It is backwards compatible with X, as you say - through a copy of X.  Which
> is not incompatible with what I said.
> 
> I've seen a bunch of people panicking.  Perhaps you have not read the
> comments to Mark Shuttleworth's announcement?
> 
> "Panicking" may be too strong a word, but plenty of threats to stop using
> Ubuntu by people who don't understand Wayland isn't actually going to
> negatively impact them.
> 
So tell them X can run in Wayland. End of story. Your description is
vague and inaccurate and will likely just create more confusion.