On 11/09/2010 04:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > >>> And what happens when all the apps are native Wayland apps and >>> none of those can be run remotely? >>> >>> If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. >> >> +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice >> technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applications from my >> cold dead hands. I agree that I see this ongoing trend to move toward >> things that are fluffy and pretty at the cost of flexibility. > > AIUI the Grand Plan is for everyone to write apps in GTK+ and Qt (which > is more or less the case already), and for GTK+ and Qt to be compatible > with *both* Wayland and X. Again AIUI, there's no impediment to this in > the design of Wayland and it's actually what Wayland's designers expect > to happen, in order to make sure things still work on platforms where > Wayland isn't available, and to deal with exactly this kind of case. > > So I think the future vision is that if you're running on your system > you get a shiny Wayland-y version, and if you run something via ssh -x > you get a slightly less pretty X version. And all the Hard Stuff happens > in the background and you don't really have to care about it. Well, that would be an excellent result. All it takes is someone who is a member of the cabal (TINC) to confirm this, and everyone will be happy. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
