Wayland Graphics System

English Soapbox
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**Ubuntu Will Adopt Wayland Graphics System
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Ubuntu Will Adopt Wayland Graphics System - PCWorld Business Center

Is this a direction OpenSuse is considering?

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I doubt it; see the following which is in openSUSE News Is Wayland going to replace X? [Alan Coopersmith’s Weblog]

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Fedora said that be looking at it for a later release Fedora To Eventually Move to Wayland, Too

who knows, other than it’s not gonna happen soon

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Has anybody experienced Wayland yet?

I am hopeful that it will end up being an more ‘up-to-date’ system compared to X, but I worry about older systems that may not be up-to-snuff.

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From what I have read, it’s going to set back Linux improvements many years. All programs designed for ‘X’ inclusive of desktops KDE, LXDE, GNOME, XFCE and all their associated apps will be useless until Wayland versions come out. Many development environments such as QT, gtk, and much more ide’s will also become useless until new versions are released. Ubuntu and Fedora IMHO are looking at creating a unique niche based upon a technology which promises a new fresh look but to date doesn’t seem to have any provable track record. I understand it will be highly graphic intensive and that in itself could spell trouble for older than 1 year old equipment and given the problems being encountered with ATI, Intel, Geforce, and Nvidia with higher than normal graphic intensity, are we ready for the potential instability that may occur?

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As far as I understand, Wayland will be compatible with applications written for an X-environment (at least for quite some time), otherwise it would most likely not receive much support. Also I never read it aims at blingbling or science-fiction-machines from next month. It’s rather about getting the same power as with X, only less complicated and bloated. As for now we can not foresee whether Wayland will fulfil the optimistic expectations, so let’s be patient. I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. In case it’s just garbage, it will hardly even be included in Ubuntu as default.

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Sounds ominously like “have faith in the developers, they’ve made it (Linux) work so far!”

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I heard three avenues of thought

  1. Developers & a few forum members … ‘make sure you consider Wayland as a target platform in addition to X(KDE,CDE,CFCE,Gnome) and web-apps’ which suggests to me that graphics & control calls might not be the same as ‘X’ calls.
  2. University prof … ‘Wayland is a new emerging replacement designed to clobber the massive cohesion problem faced with the old ‘X’ construct. it is hoped that it will integrate better on newer systems without the threading fragmentation that has crept into X window management.’
  3. From some web articles ‘Wayland contains a rich interface for window management of desktop environments designed from the ground up to be an un-fragmented system tuned for newer graphics cards and contains simpler configuration and virtually (close but not really) no bloat’

Will it make the grade … who knows until it premier’s