Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland

Hm. Okay, I start to see the point of the argument. I do have some severe skepticism that we'll rewrite gimp as web application anytime soon, though. I rather expect that something similar to RDP/VNC or yet-to-be-defined networking protocol will be used to take remote connections to wayland applications.

The most popular X-forwarded application I use personally is xterm and that's mostly because I'm too lazy to open local terminals and use separate ssh connections for them. If I had to choose between X-style vs. VNC-style, I guess I actually prefer VNC-style remoting because of the ability to leave the session running perpetually on the server. Unfortunately, in practice, VNC is not really such a stellar protocol, and I've seen RDP between 2 Windows systems perform better than VNC seems able to, for some reason.