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Would something like a middle-ware server work here? Something that handles all the backend stuff like the X-server does and provides a simple protocol that win
by eikenberry 8y ago
Would something like a middle-ware server work here? Something that handles all the backend stuff like the X-server does and provides a simple protocol that window managers could use instead of directly talking the wayland protocol? Basically wlroots as a daemon/service instead of a library.
- bitwize 8y agoThose who do not understand X architecture are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
- eikenberry 8y agoSo base it on a simplified version of the X protocol?
- bitwize 8y agoThe X protocol is Legacy Cruft and as such needs to be burned and the ashes sealed within a concrete block and buried at sea. The whole point behind Wayland is to make a 100% clean break from X. Of course as it turns out that means reinventing and replacing all the things that made X good in the first place with something completely new, because newer=gooder. And reading old code is hard, so everything on the Linux tech stack needs to be completely reimplemented so GNOME devs can maintain it for its five-year lifecycle before it all gets thrown out and replaced with something even newer (and gooder).