A simpler description of wayland

[Stefanos A.]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:44:27 +0200, Renaud Hebert  
<renaud.hebert at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> Stefanos A. a écrit :
>> 2011/1/6 Renaud Hebert <renaud.hebert at alcatel-lucent.com  
>> <mailto:renaud.hebert at alcatel-lucent.com>>
>>      I wonder if it would be possible to add to X a third variant for
>>     local usage: use shared video memory to communicate between the
>>     client and the server.
>>      What would be the difference between this and Wayland?
>>   The lack of server fonts and other 20-year-old X11 insanity that you  
>> need to implement just to claim compatibility.
>
> Uh? Remember the first part of my email: if this is really an issue, why  
> not just create X version 12 which would keep every useful features of  
> the X version 11 server but remove all the obsolete features?

I can't speak for the developers but my guess is that they wanted to make  
Wayland rather than X version 12.

>
> Dumping X just because it has some obsolete features looks to me as  
> "jeter le bébé avec l’eau du bain" (dropping the baby with the bath's  
> water).
>

X11 is not going away.

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