On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, ted.harding@wlandres.net wrote:
I have (quite accidentally) come across the news that Ubuntu seek to implement a graphics system called "Wayland" as a replacement for X-Windows
and, it seems from other sources, Fedora plan to do the same (though I'm not seeing any such signs on the Debian front).
Wayland may be more glitzy (for all I know) and more likely to pull in users who currently prefer the Mac experience and the like. But I am seriously perturbed by the following (in the above article):
"Among the X11 capabilities not included in Wayland is network transparency."
First I'd heard of it, but the Wikipedia article on Wayland suggests that
- distros will initially be making it available in addition to, rather than instead of, X - an X server can be run as a Wayland client, recovering network transparency.