What's wrong with wayland?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Marty Jack <martyj19 at comcast.net> schrieb:

> If remote clients is your thing, instead of forecasting doom
> because the old way may not work any more, first off, nothing
> stops someone from writing a thing that listens on port 6000
> and acts just like a remote X server only it is a Wayland
> client, and second off,

At this point, I fail to see the real benefit of Wayland, at
least from user or infrastructure view. (yes, having the hw
and composition part of the fat Xserver IMHO is a good thing
from sw-architectural view).

One thing that annoys me is that the current design papers
explicitly take remoting out of the picture (almost declares
that obsolete or tells people to use insufficient workarounds
like VNC) and delegates a lot of things to individual clients
(so in the end introducing massive code and data duplications).

> nothing stops someone from redesigning and rethinking what
> the proper remote protocol is, 

I'd start with an proper model before starting to think about
an specific protocol: why should a client still be responsible
for drawing, instead of just describing what it wants to have
displays (eg. an scene graph or something more hi-level) ?

Typical GUI applications have concepts of windows (and windows
within windows), widgets, etc. Those are all objects that can
be described formally and rendered in a hi-level display server.
This also would allow large savings of now heavily duplicated
code and data in the individual clients.

8 1/2 could be a interesting conceptional starting point.

> using modern encryption and compression techniques and whatever
> else is needed to get a VNC like solution that performs well
> and is secure.  

VNC can not be done right that way, as it's conceptionally
meant for a whole different purpose: it operates on screen level.
It has no idea windows, server-side resource objects, etc.
Simply lacks this information.


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