Jonathan Billings writes:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 03:33:58PM +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 08:46 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming > > unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer > > relevant. > > Is it really unmaintainable, or is it that programmers just cannot be > arsed to learn how to maintain someone else's code? > > And how does one person determine that some features are no-longer > needed? It's quite clear that in several years of Wayland being around > that various features needed by people using X have yet to be > implemented. > > This whole idea of "I can't work on this, let's throw it all out and > start again" is just incompetence. And you'll find several OS projects > that have spent many years, repeatedly going through that process and > never actually coming to any fruition because of it. > > Don't let those people near the kernel code. X11 is *old* and there is a lot of complexity involved, particularly when it comes to compositing libraries. Wayland takes the X server out of the conversation, which can improve security and efficiency, and also makes implimentation simpler.
Can you, yet, run clients through an ssh tunnel, like you can do with X? For me, that's a killer feature.
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