A simpler description of wayland

[Marty Jack]

This is not unlike how, on Macintosh, you normally run without an X server unless you want to run an X client, in which case you start one and the X server interoperates with the Macintosh graphics.  Or how on a virtualized guest the X server has special drivers to interoperate with the virtualized devices.  These are worked examples in the field.

Right now there is an intermediate state for bootstrapping and development where the X server is hosting Wayland as a client, but this would ultimately not be the way it is.  This may be part of the confusion.  See the very last diagram in the Architecture writeup for the design.

On 01/07/2011 12:54 PM, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi Renaud,
> 
>> 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?
>>
>> 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).
> 
> It's not that. Very nice and recommended reads are the next links:
> 
> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html
> 
> as well as
> 
> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
> 
> You can actually run X on top on wayland if you really need X network goodness.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Rafael Fernández López.
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