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FOSDEM: The Wayland display serverFOSDEM: The Wayland display serverPosted Feb 17, 2012 13:22 UTC (Fri) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)In reply to: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server by alankila Parent article: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server toolkit-level network transparency can be experimented with today But why would you want to? The toolkit is absolutely the wrong place to be doing this. As I write this, I have applications open using at least 4 different toolkits. Implementing network transparency in each of them such that it behaves the same in all of my current applications is simply not going to happen. If you believe otherwise, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...
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FOSDEM: The Wayland display server Posted Feb 17, 2012 14:14 UTC (Fri) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
Maybe this would get people to stop using so many toolkits...
In any case, in Wayland's architecture -- which does not define rendering at all -- there is no other obvious way to do the thing except by repeated bitmap snapshots of the window contents followed by costly analysis and encoding of the difference. It will suck.
FOSDEM: The Wayland display server Posted Feb 23, 2012 19:31 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link]
I think it's too early to declare that compressed bitmaps will suck. For example, the Sun Labs SLIM project found that a simple VNC-like protocol used less bandwidth than X11.
FOSDEM: The Wayland display server Posted Mar 1, 2012 13:07 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
In what use case, though? Easy stuff like a canvas with stuff being drawn on it, or hard-but-common stuff like a scrolling xterm window filled with text?
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