On 11/06/2010 08:44 AM, brian mullan wrote:

The Wayland FreeDesktop.org site <http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html>

gives a good description of how Wayland will work and how it is supposed to support legacy X client/server transparently.

Having read through that site nowhere does it say that the Wayland protocol is a network-aware protocol with the capabilities of the X-protocol. It appears that in order to use full network-aware remote displays that it still relies on an X-server and X-client. If that is the case then there's not much to see here. Just maybe some undetermined performance improvement but at what expense? There are no feature-by-feature or performance comparisons offered. Just a presentation of "oh look, we can wire up some existing things differently without using X".

So let me ask, where does the GPU acceleration processing take place?
If Wayland can support transparent network display clients using the X-protocol (so we don't have to reinvent the world) and make use of local (client) GPU hardware to speed rendering then this would be great. But I haven't read that yet so I'm not very impressed at the moment.

Regards, Gerry