[members at lugog] Introduction

[MJ Ray]

Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Sunday 21 Nov 2010 08:19:36 Sean Miller wrote:
> > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/unity-to-embrace-wayland-display-server/
> > 
> > For those "more in the know" what would this mean to the non-techy
> > user?  Would they see much difference in terms of "user experience"
> > (barring "less flicker" or whatever) or is this just similar to the
> > various different sound drivers that exist or proFTP vs. ANO?
> 
> The only thing that concerns me at the moment is that Wayland is incompatible 
> with the proprietary drivers from Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia have also said that 
> they have no plans to make drivers compatible with Wayland.

I'm not so concerned about that.  Proprietary drivers are a bug.
What does concern me is the idea of running X applications through
a compatibility layer.  Won't that be slower, or does the better
performance of the lighter-weight Wayland compensate for it?

I found this interesting in the quote from Mark Shuttleworth: "We
don't believe X is setup to deliver the user experience we want, with
super-smooth graphics and effects."  It says "we want".  I'm not so
sure most users care about graphic bling as long as the user interface
doesn't suck.  And good as the user interface is, even the most
enthusiastic supporter should admit it still sucks in a few ways (but
sucks less than alternatives).

Finally, from a look at http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html, I
think this is mostly vapourware still.  No releases yet.

Anyone here built it yet?
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