[X2go-dev] How Wayland will handle X client & server

[Gerry Reno]

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