FOSDEM: The Wayland display server [LWN.net]

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 17, 2012 14:14 UTC (Fri) by alankila (guest, #47141)
In reply to: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server by Tet
Parent article: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Maybe this would get people to stop using so many toolkits...

In any case, in Wayland's architecture -- which does not define rendering at all -- there is no other obvious way to do the thing except by repeated bitmap snapshots of the window contents followed by costly analysis and encoding of the difference. It will suck.

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FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 23, 2012 19:31 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link] (1 responses)

I think it's too early to declare that compressed bitmaps will suck. For example, the Sun Labs SLIM project found that a simple VNC-like protocol used less bandwidth than X11.

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Mar 1, 2012 13:07 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

In what use case, though? Easy stuff like a canvas with stuff being drawn on it, or hard-but-common stuff like a scrolling xterm window filled with text?