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LCA: The ways of Wayland

LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 14, 2013 10:24 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

It's not only on LWN that comment threads inflate a lot on such topic as X remoting or related things. Personnally, I've seen it everywhere. I'd even say that here such long comments threads are sometimes worth reading; and that is exceptional.
It makes me think that there are some areas of computer science with an emotional dimension for users and developers alike: as soon as you speak of the display on screen, or the choice of a password... Kaboom! Be ready for spending the next few hours arguing and consolating...
I wonder if there is an option to prevent that.

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LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 19, 2013 7:48 UTC (Tue) by fdrs (subscriber, #85858) [Link]

want to see a thread inflating.. try mentioning systemd or sysv ...
oooww, I sad it 8x ....

LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 21, 2013 6:04 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

And since you mention, systemd is a very good place to "integrate" a mini-version of Wayland.

It could be the main "mouse" pointer engine and theming, and the main keyboard engine. It could interface KMS and basic multi display functions. It could be the main engine for a login DM (desktop manager) and theming, and it could be the main display engine for Grub and theming... and then those consoles could have really advanced functionality.

Then ALL those themes will be common to any desktop environment that a user might choose... meaning instead of a "fragmentation" force it would be an "agglutination" force.

Its a very good idea to have a different engine for the all boot process, than for the main desktop(debugging withstand)... it is already, but it could be much improved with more features, and it could interface also for something like Coreboot or UEFI (linux UEFI)... and be the workhorse of syslinux live CDs...

Nothing is wasted, everything where they should belong... everybody gets happy.

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