On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:05:36 +0200 Patrick Lists <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/21/2012 06:59 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > [snip] > > I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting. > > > > What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland? > > I'm not a developer but my guess is that X's 25 year old codebase is > dragging along a tremendous amount of dead/unused/legacy code X is a protocol not a codebase. You can write a new X server without using any existing code. The protocol can be extended and the extensions can do much. There are however some deeply wired assumptions that may one day break - one example usually quoted is the co-ordinate range of the display. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
