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.
Posted Mar 1, 2012 13:07 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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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?