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Bad NIH, good NIHBad NIH, good NIHPosted Mar 11, 2013 4:13 UTC (Mon) by Serge (guest, #84957)In reply to: Bad NIH, good NIH by Wol Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)
> aiui, the X protocol REQUIRES that the video display is copied between the client and the server SEVERAL times. If both are on the same machine, no problem. It's easy (and has been done) to do the copy by passing a pointer. Quick and simple.
It does not. Quite the contrary it encourages you to pass your images to the server and manipulate them using "pointers". And of course Xorg has local display optimisations. It's up to the application what and how to draw. A lot of small unique images to pass over the network may slow down the whole process, as many modern themes do.
Simpler themes help. Drawing something like http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/2012-03-30--1333132280.php over network is much easier than something like http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ezze7Ar8OQ4/TaRaTjLLh5I/AAAAAAA...
> However, I REGULARLY run KDE as a client on my linux machine, with the X server on either a different linux box, or my Windows laptop. SLOW SLOW SLOW. Slower than a spaced out sloth.
It's slow compared to what? xpra/winswitch.org? NX? VNC? There're many options under X.
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