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This is fantastic- it's not going to replace X11 but more importantly it wasn't designed to. I would love to see more projects like this. So much great stuff do
by mwfunk 10y ago
This is fantastic- it's not going to replace X11 but more importantly it wasn't designed to. I would love to see more projects like this. So much great stuff doesn't get written because people convince themselves it's not worth the trouble- that if it isn't a drop-in replacement that's a superset of the thing it aims to replace, then it's not worth it. But really that's just how you end up getting stuck with things like X11 for 32 years. Even if this doesn't take over the world, it's already a successful technical investigation and proof-of-concept.
- crazyloglad 10y agothanks :-) you're right in that the only world it'll likely take over is my own, but I'm quite fine with that - the only device I rely on that it's not the UI for now is my smartphone, but the only thing missing for that is KMS/GBM support. Amusingly enough, the reason we've been stuck with X.org/Xfree86 all these years is the hard coupling between the graphics drivers and the server implementation - and while different, of course, it is very much like that in Android land too, lower level GPU interfaces act as a very good control and lockin mechanism.