X and SteamOS
X and SteamOS
Posted Sep 18, 2014 10:24 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)In reply to: X and SteamOS by kragil
Parent article: X and SteamOS
Our X11 compatibility has to be perfect anyway, so not a lot of difference from the status quo there. Obviously I'd prefer for them to be shipping a native Wayland platform, not least as it would make all the hacks to X11 redundant, but I know that they've thought through the tradeoffs internally and come to a reasoned conclusion, even if it's not the one I'd like.
Posted Sep 18, 2014 17:35 UTC (Thu)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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X and SteamOS
I wonder if it makes any sense for them to build a SteamOS Wayland compositor that includes the X server in the compositor itself, so it's essentially a multi-protocol deal, with the Wayland libraries for hardware enablement but able to run existing X11 games without additional round-trips between processes, maybe do-able because SteamOS doesn't need to run more than one game at a time so doesn't need to run multiple X servers under Wayland.