Re: Wayland Is Coming

On Thu, 9 May 2024 21:45:50 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 9 May 2024 08:19:47 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 07:50:26 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On Thu, 9 May 2024 07:39:00 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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If a framebuffer is all thats required now then whats the point of
Wayland?

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In a word? Compositing. We run modern multitasking OSes nowadays,
remember.

 
Do we? Thanks for the heads up. All thats needed is a thin layer above
the framebuffer level to marshal graphics requests. Compositing isn't
complicated.

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Go to the top of the class. That’s exactly what you get with Wayland.

If thats all it was it wouldn't still be in development after 15 years
except for low level driver updates.

My point was why should I have to pick a specific library to learn that
may well fall out of fashion when X11 provides an API thats been
standardised for decades.

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You mean the X11 graphics API has been stagnant for decades. It’s just
useless baggage by this point.

Or possibly its stagnant because it works. Change for changes sake is a
waste of everyones time and effort. Pity no one tells this to the Windows GUI
team.