Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal

jones_supa writes "While there's still more than one month until the Ubuntu 12.10 feature freeze, Ubuntu developers continue to work towards their tight schedule of having Wayland serve as the compositor for the Quantal Quetzal release due out in October. Canonical's intends to provide smooth transitions from boot to shutdown. Wayland is also used for session switching and other operations, avoiding traditional VT switching, providing a consistent monitor layout, using the greeter as the lock screen, ensuring that locked sessions are actually secure from displaying, and showing the greeter while the session loads. Phoronix remains skeptical about Ubuntu making the deadline."

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Re:Ubuntu to developers: "pound sand"

[hairyfeet]

Uhhh...yes please? frankly CLI has become the all purpose crutch in Linux for several years now and needs to go the way of disco. Can't design a GUI worth shit? CLI. Can't build a driver worth a shit? Well a CLI fix will patch that up! Sound problems, network problems, get thrown into single user mode because the driver took a shit? CLI CLI aaaand..CLI.

You could completely remove CLI from Windows and OSX and I bet my last dollar so few people would notice that it wouldn't even make page 3, why? because they do not NEED CLI just to use the damned machine, that's why! There is a REASON why Android doesn't come with CLI you know, its not needed.

The fact that your OS can't even function without a 1970s throwback UI says more about the OS than it does the users friend. CLI is only good for TWO things, neither of which is useful to the average home user. 1.-Scripting, and 2.-Repeating the same action over and over. Do you honestly think users are using WGET to fetch web pages and send them to an email daemon with scripts like RMS?

Either join the 21st century with the rest of us or don't bitch when nobody uses your OS, it is THAT simple. When people would rather steal the other guy's product, last numbers i saw had it in the millions BTW, than take your OS for 100% free? Well if that don't smack you upside the head with the cluebat than nothing will. pretending the users are gonna "embrace the POWER of CLI" like its the damned force is simply batshit and is about as likely to happen is my flying south for the winter by flapping my arms really hard. Accept and either move up or accept last place, your call. but until you get with the 21st century you might as well quit that "year of the Linux desktop" crap because it ain't EVER gonna happen.