Re: Wayland Is Coming

On Sat, 11 May 2024 02:18:51 -0000 (UTC), Alastair Hogge wrote:

Was unfortunate on the license choice tho.

I thought from your statement that they had picked something non-Free, but
it’s only LGPL! Nothing wrong with that.

On the technical side, CORBA seems like an unfortunate choice for IPC. Of
course this was before D-Bus became the Free Desktop standard.

I would love to know why Wayland, or how it came to be, to push the
complexity of compositing further out from the Display Server into the
client, like the window manager. Why is the complexity moved up the
software stack, instead of down, into the core.

The philosophy at the lower layers of any software stack should be
“mechanism, not policy”. The lower layers provide the flexibility for the
higher layers to build on, so the latter can be configured however the
user/admin wants.

On FreeBSD, none of my AMD, or Intel GPUs can handle switching to the
vty from X, or even display suspension ...

How come? Linux systems solved this problem years ago.