Complaints and changes

Posted Feb 23, 2012 23:12 UTC (Thu) by daglwn (guest, #65432)
In reply to: Complaints and changes by jmorris42
Parent article: Changes and complaints

To be fair, change in necessary and often good. I don't particularly have a problem with most of what Lennart has done, though binary logs are concerning.

And there is a fair amount of cognitive dissonance in the "traditional" UNIX world. "Everything is a file," except when it isn't (sockets). "Everything is a file," yet Linus bashes a language (C++) that directly supports modeling this kind of inheritance concept efficiently. We've seen disastrous consequences when filesystems don't get updated to some new VFS layer feature.

None of the philosophy from any side can be applied ideologically everywhere. I like the idea of Wayland. The X codebase is a mess and it really does have a lot of unused stuff. But like you, I have no confidence that there will ever be any acceptable network transparency support. It's a critical feature without which I can never adopt Wayland.

Complaints and changes

Posted Feb 24, 2012 22:59 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (2 responses)

I like one Wayland idea someone had. He pointed out that with the latest Intel chips you can do a realtime video encode of each composited window and ship that over the network using less bandwidth than most of the current VNC solutions.

Complaints and changes

Posted Mar 1, 2012 13:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah... but video encoding is lossy and intended for animated real-world scenes. Have you ever seen what a window containing lots of text (or even line drawings) looks like after a video encoding pass? Ugly and unreadable, that's what.

(This is not an indictment of video codecs: they are largely very good at what they do. But what they are designed to do is encode animated real-world scenes, not flat window images.)

Complaints and changes

Posted Mar 1, 2012 22:13 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

If you did not move the text around, I believe that after several frames it would be clear and readable as each frame increased the resolution.

I have watched shows that had quite a bit of text in them. Some sports shows have a bunch of statistics and on HDTV they are pretty crisp.