Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:08:10PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle > > keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last > > decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Well it would be mightily nice to have an infrastructure that can handle > keyboard extended keys (almost every new keyboard sold in the last > decade has one or more of those) without barfing because the original > x11 protocol designers thought 8 bits would be enough for

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: > GTK+ backends are linked in at this time. > One of the things that we will need to address before switching to > wayland-with-X-fallback-for-remote-or-poor-hw becomes a realistic > possibility. Well, I don't think that will ever be feasible for Qt apps (which, like it or

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-14 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:54:02 +, Pierre Carrier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:01, Nicolas Mailhot > wrote: >> I despair of making *nix input people understand that LANGAGE ≠ INPUT >> Please stop trying to derive one from the other, they are *distinct* >> and one can (and often does) use

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-13 Thread Pierre Carrier
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:01, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I despair of making *nix input people understand that LANGAGE ≠ INPUT > Please stop trying to derive one from the other, they are *distinct* and > one can (and often does) use a non-english layout to type English. It's > about as smart as try

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 21:05 -0500, Ding Yi Chen a écrit : > Well, actually input methods can do that. :-) > They know exactly what language you are typing, and some do basic > spelling check in the language they support. Sorry, but no. Appart from the well known stability problems, which m

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-11 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- "Nicolas Mailhot" wrote: > Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:57 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > Is Fedora for developers or what? > > > > We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because > of > > "tearing" when scrolling in a browser window? > > Well it would b

Re: nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 09:03 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > > I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, > > > it seems like it performs OK al

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Kreuter
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 09:21:24 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 11/09/2010 01:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > X will run as a Wayland client. That means all applications that support > > X will be able to run remotely without change. Since QT and GTK both run > > on X and virtually all

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:59 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:35:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > What kind of attack are you trying to prevent, and how do you envision > > that interacting with the window system? > > The classic is a hostile remote binary which secretly

Re: nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:03:25AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > > I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, > > > it seems like it perform

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 11/09/2010 01:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > X will run as a Wayland client. That means all applications that support X > will be able to run remotely without change. Since QT and GTK both run on X > and virtually all apps out there are programmed to use QT and/or GTK for > most people

Re: nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-10 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:22:02PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, > > it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds > > now and then. It seems to

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 14:23:54 Björn Persson wrote: > Adam Jackson wrote: > > % ldd `which gcalctool` | grep libX > > libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x05f1a000) [snip] > ldd appears to resolve dependencies recursively. I typically use > readelf to see what a program links to

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 10:33 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > wrote: >> No. I'm sorry but it's fundamentaly unfair to hold me responsible for the >> behaviour of others. If you think this shouldn't have been brought up fine >> but if others decide to draw p

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 09 novembre 2010 à 14:19 -0500, Adam Jackson a écrit : > When I say "vnc-like" I mean "let's scrape the pixels out of the > rendering buffer and shove them over the wire". VNC itself is rooted, > but vnc-like remoting can be rooted or rootless. In wayland the > fundamental object of com

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
That's true, using freenx to access a whole desktop works well with xfce and no sound. I can't imagine it working so well if trying to run gnome-shell, sound etc remotely. I get the impression a lot of the current desktop infrastructure doesn't make sense when accessed remotely, eg if I ssh'ed int

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 09.11.10 23:14, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: > Lennart Poettering píše v Út 09. 11. 2010 v 23:07 +0100: > > I think you aren't even aware how broken this "mix and match" network > > approach of classic X11 is. The semantics of D-Bus and other IPCs in a > > distributed X11 session

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Lennart Poettering píše v Út 09. 11. 2010 v 23:07 +0100: > I think you aren't even aware how broken this "mix and match" network > approach of classic X11 is. The semantics of D-Bus and other IPCs in a > distributed X11 session has never been clearly defined, and all kinds of > integration between

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 08:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > wrote: >> On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >>> I've mostly been watching here and I think people have been fairly >>> clearly about their concerns: Network transparency is import

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 09.11.10 04:05, Jon Masters (jonat...@jonmasters.org) wrote: > > > From what I've read so far you can run rootless X as a Wayland client so > > > you can just use your remote X apps like you did in the past next to > > > native > > > Wayland apps. Also if there is a real interest in th

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:35:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > The UX will probably be somewhere between ssh -Y, vncserver(1), and: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651591 > > Hopefully with a better security model than 'ssh -Y'? > What kind of attack are you trying to prevent

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:26 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:17:25PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > The UX will probably be somewhere between ssh -Y, vncserver(1), and: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651591 > > Hopefully with a better security model than '

Re: nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
At least it's winter now and a hot netbook is less of a problem than in the summer. On 9 Nov 2010 21:22, "Adam Williamson" wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > I'm using the experimental 3d now with gno... You're probably not. nouveau basically has no power management

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > No. I'm sorry but it's fundamentaly unfair to hold me responsible for the > behaviour of others. If you think this shouldn't have been brought up fine > but if others decide to draw premature conclusions from this it's their > fault an

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:17:25PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > The UX will probably be somewhere between ssh -Y, vncserver(1), and: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651591 Hopefully with a better security model than 'ssh -Y'? If this has Xpra-like functionality (i.e. "screen for X"

Re: nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 21:05 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, > it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds > now and then. It seems to recover and I can't see any obvious log > messages around the time of the

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:55 +, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a > > wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible > > than X over the network, since the na

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:03:38PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:43:06PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have > > that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a > > modest amount

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 07:33 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > wrote: >> Then why are people already calling for the rejection of Wayland even >> though Wayland is still far from being finished and hasn't even touched >> Fedora yet. >> >> raising concerns !=

Re: nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-09 Thread Camilo Mesias
I'm using the experimental 3d now with gnome shell. After a few days, it seems like it performs OK although it locks up for a few seconds now and then. It seems to recover and I can't see any obvious log messages around the time of the freeze. It does survive suspend/resume, which is great. My impr

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:43:06PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have > that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a > modest amount of additional wayland protocol (or just inter-client > conventions) you can

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:53:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > well, I imagine you know more about this than me, but I run with > Japanese input support at least occasionally, and my impression is that > a lot of it is a fragile tower necessitated by the fact that the deep > underlying stuff wa

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:28:10PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:24 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, B

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:34 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Adam Jackson said: > > - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have > > that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a > > VNC-like remoting is a significant loss for server

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Jackson said: > - We lose network transparency! Well, sure, the protocol doesn't have > that directly. You can still do vnc-like things trivially and with a VNC-like remoting is a significant loss for server environments compared to X-like remoting. With an X-based GUI m

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > OK, so it's likely that everything will just continue to work > remotely, and people won't experience any problems.  And they won't > have to run VNC just to get their favourite app to display remotely. > > If this had been explained clearly to

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:24 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > > > > > > And where does that sit in the arc

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:12 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > To the extent that those apps call (and link) only against the toolkit > and not against an assumed backend, sure. The strict linking changes in > F12 or F13 or whichever it was helped a lot with this, and gtk3 will > help more, but to pick

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:19 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:01 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > And I'm saying you can get the network remoting effect you like in X, in > > > Wayland. It's not built into the local Wa

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > > > > And where does that sit in the architecture? > > > > > > Looking over the architecture page (2nd

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Björn Persson
Adam Jackson wrote: > % ldd `which gcalctool` | grep libX > libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x05f1a000) > libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x001c1000) > libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d42000) > libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:01 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > And I'm saying you can get the network remoting effect you like in X, in > > Wayland. It's not built into the local Wayland rendering system, but > > there are both trivial ways to

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:05 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > > And where does that sit in the architecture? > > > > Looking over the architecture page (2nd figure) it looks like the only > > way to get the kind of network transpare

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:54 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > - All my X apps have to be ported! Yes, if they want to be native > > wayland clients, they do. > > Minor correction (I think?) - the apps don't really need to be ported, >

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> I've mostly been watching here and I think people have been fairly >> clearly about their concerns: Network transparency is important to >> them, and they understand that the wayland me

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 06:43 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:40 +, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> I'm wondering of I'm reading this correctly. The downsides that have >> been described are quite severe in contrast to the possible benefits. >> It is, of course, possible that a mistake has

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:44:19PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > And where does that sit in the architecture? > > Looking over the architecture page (2nd figure) it looks like the only > way to get the kind of network transparency that X has under Wayland is > to put the network between the Wa

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a > > > wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible > > > than X over the network

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:47 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a > > > wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible > > > than X over the network

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > - All my X apps have to be ported! Yes, if they want to be native > wayland clients, they do. Minor correction (I think?) - the apps don't really need to be ported, the toolkits do. Once GTK+ is ported to Wayland, fr'instance, all GTK+ a

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_. Either to an X or to a > > wayland view system. It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible > > than X over the network, since the natural remoting level (surface > > updates) is basic

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > wayland...when they feel its ready. By introducing it for discussion > before they were ready to engage in that discussion you've actually > made it more difficult for the discussion to move forward as you've > taken away their best shot to me

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 19:12 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > >> > >>> +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (becaus

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:40 +, Andrew Haley wrote: > I'm wondering of I'm reading this correctly. The downsides that have > been described are quite severe in contrast to the possible benefits. > It is, of course, possible that a mistake has been made, and the acute > loss of functionality is

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:27 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: > > > B/c the perception I get is that only the desktop-oriented folks know > > > what users want or need and the server-oriented folks do not. > > > I think that's in error, too. > > > > In fact,

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Then why are people already calling for the rejection of Wayland even > though Wayland is still far from being finished and hasn't even touched > Fedora yet. > > raising concerns != screaming the sky is falling Actually, if we go bac

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: > > B/c the perception I get is that only the desktop-oriented folks know > > what users want or need and the server-oriented folks do not. > > I think that's in error, too. > > In fact, us server-oriented folks are often blessed with working directly > wi

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Gregory Maxwell (gmaxw...@gmail.com) said: > So, > > > You are, in short, scared. > > ... I think this is a rather unfair characterization. I don't know about that. Something new is discussed, and not everyone understands it, and they have concerns about how it may handle some particular cases.

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >> >>> +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice >>> technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applicat

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:37:34PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > B/c the perception I get is that only the desktop-oriented folks know > what users want or need and the server-oriented folks do not. > I think that's in error, too. In fact, us server-oriented folks are often blessed with working direc

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > Remoting a wayland application is _trivial_.  Either to an X or to a > wayland view system.  It's hard to make wayland remoting less flexible > than X over the network, since the natural remoting level (surface > updates) is basically stateless

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 04:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > >>> And what happens when all the apps are native Wayland apps and >>> none of those can be run remotely? >>> >>> If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. >> >> +1 for brin

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 05:13 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 11:44 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > >> I think we'd like to see the Fedora community figure out its position >> on the subject— so that it can tell the Wayland developers "If you >> continue on this track, then as things stand,

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:25 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people > > I object strongly to this perception that nobody involved in developing > desktop technologies has any idea what s

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people I object strongly to this perception that nobody involved in developing desktop technologies has any idea what server admins want. What we're seeing is the development of technolo

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 11:44 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > I think we'd like to see the Fedora community figure out its position > on the subject— so that it can tell the Wayland developers "If you > continue on this track, then as things stand, Fedora will not be > making it a part of the defaul

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > >> +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice >> technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applications from my >> cold dead hands. I agree that I see t

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it's nice > technology) but you can pull my genuine networked applications from my > cold dead hands. I agree that I see this ongoing trend to move toward > things that are fluffy an

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/09/2010 03:57 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 11/9/10 7:23 AM, Jon Masters wrote: >> At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people point out that >> things like network apps actually matter, the default path may be to do >> what will look nice on a local desktop (for the record, I can s

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:29 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:50:15PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > Really, I have no > > > problem using my keyboard, > > > > Given your location and native lang

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 04:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > And what happens when all the apps are native Wayland apps and > > none of those can be run remotely? > > > > If I wanted to step back to the pre-net era, I'd run Windows. > > +1 for bringing these points up. No offense to krh (because it

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jesse Keating
On 11/9/10 8:23 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > I've seen the responses on the Wayland list, and it's always "Wayland > isn't intended to do that." So, there's no point raising objections > there. > > The risk is that Wayland gets developed and a bunch of key > applications in Fedora get broken. The W

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 11/9/10 8:23 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> I've seen the responses on the Wayland list, and it's always "Wayland >> isn't intended to do that."  So, there's no point raising objections >> there. >> >> The risk is that Wayland gets developed a

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jesse Keating
On 11/9/10 7:23 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > At which point, it's too late. Unless Server-y people point out that > things like network apps actually matter, the default path may be to do > what will look nice on a local desktop (for the record, I can see full > screen tearing-free graphics both using

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:09 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 11/09/2010 10:05 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >>> On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:50:15PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Really, I have no > > problem using my keyboard, > > Given your location and native language, I suspect your keyboard layout > is en_US, in which case this isn't m

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/09/2010 10:05 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >>> On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wr

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 08:43 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > >> Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Really, I have no > problem using my keyboard, Given your location and native language, I suspect your keyboard layout is en_US, in which case this isn't much of a surprise - it's one of the simplest cases (it requires one of the fewe

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 16:41 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > > > > Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? > > > > Beca

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/06/2010 07:39 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> First I think you should probably head over to the Wayland mailing list and >> get involved there. That's something I also recommend to Richard because if >> you want certai

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : >> > >> > Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? >> >> Because those are just

nouveau & gnome-shell (was: Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland)

2010-11-07 Thread Alex Hudson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:00 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > You mention gnome shell but not nouveau, how do you enable the missing > 3d support for Nouveau? There's an Mesa package labelled "experimental" you need to install. I don't know what the subset of hardware it works for is, but my Quadro N

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, >> how do you enable the missing 3d support for Nouveau? > > It came with mesa-dri-drivers-experimental. I just wanted to say thanks, I am running with this now, it seems to be "certainly more than adequate" ;-) to run gnome shell. No more akmod-nvidia for a while! -Cam -- devel mailing lis

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:00 +, Camilo Mesias wrote: > You mention gnome shell but not nouveau, how do you enable the missing > 3d support for Nouveau? And does it only work for a subset of > hardware? I'd be interested to try it. Lately I just get: > > Accelerated 3D graphics is not available

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 15:48 +, Ben Boeckel wrote: > Camilo Mesias wrote: > > [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I > > checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. > > I was doing that back in November[1]. It depends on your hardware. Works on some cards, doesn't on others

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:57:27AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of > "tearing" when scrolling in a browser window? [I do *not* see any of I actually read it as we want to ditch features that were groundbreaking in 1975 since

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 02:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:43AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> On 11/06/2010 12:21 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> >> Richard W.M. Jones (rjo...@redhat.com) s

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 11/6/2010 11:28, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > As for the "if all apps are ported to Wayland I will not be able to use > them remotely anymore" I think this is bogus. Nowadays virtually all > application aren't X application but gtk/qt applications and the toolkits > tend to support different b

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > First I think you should probably head over to the Wayland mailing list and > get involved there. That's something I also recommend to Richard because if > you want certain features to be present now is a good time to make y

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > > Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? > > Because those are just the examples I know where X11 has been blocking > progress for *

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:14:57PM +, Pierre Carrier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:51, Camilo Mesias wrote: > >> With virtualization I have more Linux machines than ever (about 50 in > >> active use at last count).  All on my local 1GB network.  Consequently > >> I use X to them and to ot

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 11/06/2010 04:16 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: Out of interest, do you use individual shells/terms or something that provides a more remote desktop like experience? >>> >>> I use ssh -Y. Anything that sits in a huge window showing an entire >>> desktop-in-a-desktop is so obviously the wron

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Ben Boeckel
Camilo Mesias wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: >> Camilo Mesias wrote: >>> [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I >>> checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. >> >> I was doing that back in November[1]. >> >> --Ben >> >> [1]http://blipper

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: > Camilo Mesias wrote: >> [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I >> checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. > > I was doing that back in November[1]. > > --Ben > > [1]http://blipper.dev.benboeckel.net/one-soap-box/2009

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 14:21 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > Why throw away everything just so we can make input better? Because those are just the examples I know where X11 has been blocking progress for *years*. I'm sure there are lots of others. > (And in any case wasn't evdev s

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Ben Boeckel
Camilo Mesias wrote: > [..] As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I > checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. I was doing that back in November[1]. --Ben [1]http://blipper.dev.benboeckel.net/one-soap-box/2009/11/03/gnome-day-2-gnome-shell/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fe

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Bidewell
>>> Out of interest, do you use individual shells/terms or something that >>> provides a more remote desktop like experience? >> >> I use ssh -Y.  Anything that sits in a huge window showing an entire >> desktop-in-a-desktop is so obviously the wrong way to do it, from both >> a usability and effic

Re: Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

2010-11-06 Thread Pierre Carrier
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 13:51, Camilo Mesias wrote: >> With virtualization I have more Linux machines than ever (about 50 in >> active use at last count).  All on my local 1GB network.  Consequently >> I use X to them and to other physical machines _all the time_. > If there is no way to provide re

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