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Bollocks, the equivalent of opening a window using Win32 in Linux world is using X11's xlib (or xcb) API. Equivalent albeit more brain damaged. Wayland doesn't
by ensiferum 10y ago
Bollocks, the equivalent of opening a window using Win32 in Linux world is using X11's xlib (or xcb) API. Equivalent albeit more brain damaged.
Wayland doesn't change this. Once Wayland is adopted the X server will become a Wayland client and X client's will connect to the X server as usual. You don't have to write a native Wayland application if you don't want to.
- i336_ 10y agoThat's true, yep. But another commentator noted how Wayland doesn't provide X11-standard functionality (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13346877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13346877). I fear that X11 will eventually be installed (and possibly even available) in less and less environments, in the long term. So 10 years from now it'll be interesting to see where things are at. Hopefully things haven't devolved too far.
- ensiferum 10y agoOne could only hope that 10 years from now X has in-fact disappeared. My greater worry is that it's still around and Wayland (with Weston implementation) hasn't yet gained enough traction to become "de-facto" server. To make matters worse there's the Ubuntu's MIR display server, which seems to have gone silent. This could lead to some nasty fragmentation between distros.