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Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

Posted Oct 24, 2012 16:31 UTC (Wed) by wmf (guest, #33791)
In reply to: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released by nix
Parent article: Wayland and Weston 1.0 released

sending giant bitmaps would be devastating for a major use case: scrolling windows full of lots and lots of client-side-rendered text
It's possible to compress this down to nothing using motion estimation; whether Wayland can actually implement that remains to be seen but it's not impossible.


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