Wayland - Beyond X (The H)
Wayland - Beyond X (The H)
Posted Feb 14, 2012 0:52 UTC (Tue) by daglwn (guest, #65432)In reply to: Wayland - Beyond X (The H) by iabervon
Parent article: Wayland - Beyond X (The H)
> People haven't really used X's network transparency for over a decade,
Baloney. I use it regularly.
> Instead, they run a thin X server on the remote machine, connect it to a
> local X client over an ssh connection, and remote applications are none
> the wiser.
In other words they run the remote X protocol over a secure link.
> Replacing either or both of the X protocol interactions with Wayland is
> pretty irrelevant
How so? The applications talk the X protocol. Once they're ported to Wayland, they can no longer do remote X, whether over ssh or not. They'll only be able to have network transparency if Wayland implements it, about which the project members have clearly indicated they do not care one bit.