wayland is no better that Xegl ?

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 17 June 2012 02:06, microcai <microcai at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> wayland is build on KMS and EGL

It can be, but not necessarily.

> Xegl doesn't require KMS but if you have KMS that will be fine.
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> wayland forces apps to use GL

It doesn't.

>  but Xegl translates every Xlib call to GL call.

Which isn't very useful, because it's not a clean and direct
translation.  (And no-one wants to render using Xlib, it's not a
useful drawing API.)

> wayland lost net work transparency, Xegl not.

Wayland will have network transparency.

> wayland  is not compatible with X, while Xegl does.

See xwayland and the Weston-under-X11 nesting.

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> So why don't we improve Xegl rather than renivent the wheel?

Because it's not usefully possible.