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Wayland 1.4 Released — Touch, Sub-Surface Protocol, Crop/Scale Support
An anonymous reader writes "Version 1.4 of the Wayland protocol and Weston reference compositor have been released. The Wayland/Weston 1.4 release delivers on many features and includes promoting the sub-surface protocol to official Wayland, improved touch screen support, a crop/scale protocol within Weston, security improvements, and other fixes."
Just to preclude about half of the coming threads.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
The wayland repository continues to mature and moves slowly. This cycle again only saw a few wayland changes, most of which where fairly unexciting:
- SHM Buffer SIBGUS protection. We added and couple of utility functions to help compositors guard against broken or malicious clients who could truncate the backing file for shm buffers and thus trigger SIGBUS in the compositor (Neil Roberts).
- Subsurfaces protocol moved to wayland repo and as such promoted to official wayland protocol (Pekka Paalanen).
- wl_proxy_set_queue() can take a NULL queue to reset back to default queue. (Neil Roberts).
- A few bug fixes, in particular, I'd like highlight the fix for the race between wl_proxy_create() and wl_proxy_marshal().
- A few scanner error message improvements and documentation tweaks and polish.
I'm hoping the Maui Project (which uses Wayland) can continue to gain momentum as Wayland does and that it becomes a viable option in the next few years.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Yes. It's on the road map.
So...there's that.
Some guys who worked on Xorg/X11 for years are redesigning it to be better. They got some good ideas but it will be a while before it can actually replace Xorg/X11. Here is something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Some guys who worked on Xorg/X11 for years are redesigning it to be better.
Yes.
'Xorg sucks, but this new interface it will be much better. Trust us! We wrote Xorg!'
The same way as X did? You mean produce a hell old protocol which was network transparent yet utterly incompatible with SHM requiring every modern distribution to have the compositor render the frame and then send it over the network as a bitmap? Wait what? I just described VNC.
Actually no I didn't. VNC uses compression, X doesn't. Hence remote X running on any system produced in the past 20 years actually holds the crown as the only system SLOWER than VNC over the network. It's only saving grace is that you can send individual apps and don't need to export the entire desktop. Then there's the underlying problem of a protocol which forces a shitload of talking to the local server before even being capable of sending a bitmap to the remote one.
As one X developer described it, it is not possible to do remote desktop any worse than X.
> Wayland probably won't be able to perfectly replicate your perfect 1992 X experience, because nobody (who isn't the kind of fucking retard who runs shit remotely just to make themselves feel like one computer isn't enough power for them) gives a shit about doing that kind of thing any more.
What hole have you been hiding in?
Remote desktops are all the rage now. They are very common in corporations and even "regular people" are using them.
The rest of the world has caught up to the 1992 X experience. Now clueless nitwits want to set us back 30 years because they think it's trendy or some such.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
As one X developer described it, it is not possible to do remote desktop any worse than X.
Well this is the problem and why Wayland is greeted with such suspicion.
The claim is "oh it's better than X because it's being done by X developers", and then you have claims like that which are disingenuous bordering on an outright lie.
Just about everything does remote windowing worse than X. Even if you accept that X sucks, everything else sucks harder. The thing that seems to be by far the best is NX, and that's basically juiced X, not X with all the bits removed.
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