On 2 April 2014 10:37, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > but a > redesign of the X protocol, i.e. it's not ABI compatible.
No, it's not a redesign of anything. It is an entirely new GUI layer which entirely replaces X.11 - as has been done in both Android and Mac OS X and which Canonical are attempting to do with Mir. AIUI the plan is to implement some form of X.11 compatibility on top of it, but few modern *nix apps write direct to X.11 any more - they talk to a toolkit, such as Gtk or Qt or one of the more obscure ones like FLTK. Once those toolkits are ported to Wayland, the apps should, in theory, run just as before, with no need for X.11 or an X-compatible layer. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com * Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
