[Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu ditches X for Wayland..

Franz Allan Valencia See franz.see at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 23:26:18 UTC 2010


Curious, how about for xfce or lxde users?

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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Allan E. Registos <
allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph> wrote:

> Unless if you are a developer something like you develop
> utilities/applications that relies heavily on X-dev, I can't see any reason
> why you aren't comfortable with another window server alternative, since it
> is transparent to the user, also Wayland was develop with backward
> compatibility in mind, so the transition is smooth.  The difference is that
> we can expect GNOME and KDE to be faster to render windows than what we have
> today.
>
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> *From: *"[C]hicken [G] od" <iamthechickengod at gmail.com>
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> *Sent: *Saturday, November 6, 2010 5:50:13 PM
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> *Subject: *Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu ditches X for Wayland..
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>
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Allan E. Registos <
> allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph> wrote:
>
>> Mark Shuttleworth:
>>
>> "Timeframes are difficult. I’m sure we could deliver *something* in six
>> months, but I think a year is more realistic for the first images that will
>> be widely useful in our community."
>> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
>>
>> Unless someone in the community will provide for us a mock-up or
>> something, we will wait for four years from now to fully experience the
>> wayland based desktop.
>>
>>
>
> I would be interested to know if anyone has had real face time with
> Wayland. Just when I was starting to get comfortable with X and
> Gnome....*sigh*
>
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