Re: wayland-1.0 released

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:45 AM, is%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:10:14AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> > All applications will need to be rewritten to use it properly. There
> > is planned to be a way of running existing X11 applications with it.
>
> First thing that goes away is network transparency, as far as I know.

True, but supposedly you can either run an Xserver on top of it or a  
wayland server on top of X. The actual compositing stuff is supposedly  
done by backends so we can - theoretically at least - provide our own  
( and I'd love to do that once the rest is working )

> I've read recently that they're planning to bolt something like
> that on - but that was on the pixel level, not high-level objects
> like with X11.

Clients do communicate with the server through sockets as it is. They  
probably rely on shared buffers though.

have fun
Michael

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