Legacy X and network transparency

Posted Nov 8, 2010 8:16 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Legacy X and network transparency by PO8
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

And because remoting a window manager is a bad idea (odd, I did it last week and it worked fine), we can just drop the whole idea of a window manager! Nobody needs that flexibility, right? Everyone can just use Metacity, perhaps with some extra themes! There are no competitors worth speaking of!

(oh, wait.)

Legacy X and network transparency

Posted Nov 12, 2010 3:07 UTC (Fri) by jmorris42 (guest, #2203) [Link] (1 responses)

> we can just drop the whole idea of a window manager!

Yea, that is just an extra helping of fail to go along with ditching network transparency. So not only are we supposed to be happy tossing "The Network is the Computer, the Computer is the Network" we also lose "Mechanism not policy" along with it.

After both of those are gone, might as well just buy a Mac and be done with it.

Ya know, one of the attractions of Free Software for me was the hope for freedom from being abandoned by a vendor. But with the lemming like action of the distributions chasing "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" it looks like we (we the *NIX loving folk who were the early adopters) are about to be abandoned. Thankfully we will at least have the option to fall back to a distribution preserving the *NIX way.... even if we have to fork it off from an existing one and maintain it. Right up until Firefox and Chromium go Wayland and drop X support, then things might get messy.

Legacy X and network transparency

Posted Nov 14, 2010 21:07 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Even then, Konqueror should still work. I don't see Qt dropping X support: after all, they already support, what, three or four or is it five different graphics layers? Adding Wayland shouldn't require *them* to drop X :)