27 Apr
2014
27 Apr
'14
11:52 p.m.
On 04/28/2014 07:40 AM, Alexandre wrote:
soon.
From the discussions I have read about in the past, everyone sees it as
a potential problem, but nobody seems to be terribly worried.
I don't think it's going to be much of an issue the first few years.
But then, .....I was just told that it would be better for humanity if I
stop thinking.
:-)
:-)
> Hi,
>
> Looks like X11 is will come to the end of its life in the next few
years,
> while Ubuntu talks of Mir and there is also
Wayland. Will it be
possible
> to adapt TDE and TQt3 for these new graphic
frameworks?
>
> Here is some links on it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_%28software%29
>
http://www.zdnet.com/mark-shuttleworth-mir-has-delivered-what-we-hoped-7000…
http://beta.slashdot.org/story/186653
-Alexandre
This will be very difficult. I have been aware of Wayland for some time
but I don't think X11 is truly coming to the end of its life anytime
When the time does come we would need to write a new backend renderer
(probably targetting Cairo), then rewrite large chunks of TQt3, tdelibs,
and tdebase at minimum. This is not possible with our current manpower.
Tim
Yes, it looks like a very complicated adaptation. Even KDE is not yet
supporting it fully, but at the same time, X has a long history of
no-so-good graphic performance and reliability issues. If something
better, and better adapted to newer multi-platform devices is made, I
think that it will be an improvement for Linux in general. Or maybe it
is possible to use one of the little X systems like Xvesa or Xfbdev as
a base to redirect the content of the screen to Wayland, but it is
possible that it makes little improvement in performance at the same time.
-Alexandre