[mythtv-users] Wayland

[Andréas Kühne]

2013/10/1 Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>
> > On 10/01/2013 09:10 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> > >  Just out of interest, I've been reading up on Wayland and have been
> > > looking for any references to it in the MythTV roadmap, but haven't
> > > found anything yet.
> > >
> > >  Does anyone know what the plan is? At some point this may start
> > > affecting our hardware decisions: ie intel graphics - VA-API -
> > > Wayland vs Nvidia - vdpau - X???
> >
> > Don't forget about Mir (Ubuntu's "we can do better than X /and/ we can
> > do better than Red Hat's 'we can do better than X'").
> >
> > I'll say, though, that it has to start with Qt support. From there,
> > we'll find out what we can (and/or can't) do.
>
> Well, this week's LWN notes that Gnome, I think it's 3.1, is coming out
> with Wayland/Weston support, though it's very "developer alpha" level,
> for whatever that's worth.
>
> My personal opinion, after 3 decades, is that it's going to be *very*
> difficult to knock X off the top of the pyramid; anything that tries
> is going to have to make it easy for apps to be built dual-mode for
> quite some time.  As is: not make *developers* do that.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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I agree that X will be hard to knock off, however ubuntu has a huge
installbase and they are known for doing things their own way. Just use Mir
as default window handler and forget about the rest, and Mir will be
default from Ubuntu 13.10....

Regards,

Andréas
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