[X2go-dev] Ubuntu, X, and Wayland

[brian mullan]

Gerry

Good questions, but I think they would be best asked on the forums related
to the projects (ubuntu and wayland)?


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Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:14:01 -0400
From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>
To: x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] How Wayland will handle X client & server
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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
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