On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 12:54 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > 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.
Terminological inexactitude on my part. From the Wayland site: "Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain. GNOME and KDE are expected to be ported to it." > 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. Kind of what I was trying to say. Those apps that do talk to X directly, such as window managers, need to be rewritten or use a compatibility layer in the meantime. poc -- 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
