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Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland
An anonymous reader writes "The Maui OS Project has made their first stable release of the Hawaii Desktop. Hawaii is still catching up with GNOME, Xfce, and KDE in terms of features, but it's written from scratch atop next-generation open-source technologies. In particular, Hawaii 0.2.0 is powered by the brand new Qt 5.2 tool-kit and runs natively on Wayland's Weston 1.3 compositor. Hawaii 0.2.0 carries all standard Linux desktop features but more advanced desktop functionality is planned while focusing around a Wayland design and eventually their own Green Island Compositor."
You sed: RDP is not the same as network transparency. It is the opposite of the network transparency.
In that case, any even remotely modern version of X isn't network transparent either since X is basically operating as a poorly implemented version of RDP using any GUI toolkit like GTK or Qt. P.S. --> The lead developers of X.org agree with me that the modern version of X that real people use in the real world is not network transparent, so unless you are even a more experienced X developer, I'm going to agree with them and not you.
You sed: With X you can run side by side on the same physical screen applications from the different servers.
2008 called and it wants its complaint about RDP back (this functionality was introduced a LONG time ago). RDP can be implemented using Wayland too you know, it's not a strictly a Windows thing.
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The lead developers of X.org agree with me that the modern version of X that real people use in the real world is not network transparent
So you apparently have no idea what they are talking about, but somehow Keith Packard agrees with you? LOL
They talk about server-side vs. client-side rendering. And it is true that it doesn't make much sense and RDP in a way is an improvement. But that argument rests on the generalization that there are no other X using applications beside GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE. There are still plenty of Motiff/Lesstiff/Athena/Xaw/Tk applications around.
Anyway, if we are to generalize, then why not generalize it to the logical end: everything is a web app. Even now, what most consumers see on their screens is a rendered HTML. And PCs are dead - long live tablets.
2008 called and it wants its complaint about RDP back (this functionality was introduced a LONG time ago). RDP can be implemented using Wayland too you know, it's not a strictly a Windows thing.
So. You have no idea what "network transparency" really means.
Or you would have mentioned the seamless RDP - and all PITAs associated with it. That thing (with the "official" XenApps) is a such miserable experience that nobody willingly is using it.
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