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You betray your ignorance of wayland

Posted May 29, 2012 7:51 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: You betray your ignorance of wayland by Jonno
Parent article: Announcing printerd

Thanks, that is excellent news. Perhaps a little more work than running everything through a generalized version of the XCB API, but accomplishing the same thing nonetheless, and probably more flexible too.

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Posted May 29, 2012 21:53 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah. If Gtk does that too, most objections to Wayland basically fall away: nobody's likely to implement Wayland-only programs (just as people don't write against raw Xlib these days), and if the toolkits can switch based on an env var or something, the user can choose with whatever granularity is desired between insane blazing performance and remotability (which means I can turn remotability on and forget about Wayland completely).

You betray your ignorance of wayland

Posted May 30, 2012 5:47 UTC (Wed) by aquasync (subscriber, #26654) [Link]

I would expect so, using the GDK_BACKEND environment variable (see the gtk broadway demos).