Comments on: Gnome & Wayland

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:41:00 +0000

Cool story bro. Tell it again.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:40:00 +0000

Yup, keep “imagining” things, if it helps you believe Unity doesn’t suck. Unfortunately, your imagination is of zero value when faced with reality.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:37:00 +0000

You haven’t been looking very hard then, have you? There’s a very good answer to this already. Networking is none of Waylands concern, use VNC.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:36:00 +0000

Shut up you pedantic cretin.

By: Jānis Bebrītis

Jānis Bebrītis — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:28:00 +0000

network transparency, lol

By: Gnome 3.8 Features: Port Gnome-Shell to use XI2 | woGue

Gnome 3.8 Features: Port Gnome-Shell to use XI2 | woGue — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:52:44 +0000

[...] is about XServer and X Clients, while for Wayland there isn’t yet a discussion about a Multi-Gesture API, which it will [...]

By: Stinger

Stinger — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:44:00 +0000

What a nitpicker, you must be a teacher of some sort ;-)

By: indure

indure — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:56:00 +0000

Good job, Thanks

By: James LaBarre

James LaBarre — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:08:00 +0000

As yet, I **STILL** haven’t seen an answer on how Wayland will handle network transparency (enabled *by default*). Without that, wayland will become a significant step backwards in usability. Perhaps it’s there, but the vast silence on the topic leads me to believe it isn’t.

By: Jiří Eischmann

Jiří Eischmann — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:52:00 +0000

Man, LLVMpipe was developed for GNOME Shell. Of course, it’s running on it ;)

By: Links 29/10/2012: Steam For Linux Beta Needs Testers, GNOME 3.7.1 | Techrights

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:55:42 +0000

[...] Gnome & Wayland Wayland is the next big thing in Linux Desktop since ..the beginning? It is meant to work aside with the problematic X (with the tremendous amount of functionality) and eventually (in many years!) is going to replace it. [...]

By: Philip Witte

Philip Witte — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:26:00 +0000

I disagree, personally. I don’t think “common” phrases detract from the content of the article at all, as long as they’re understood by the general audience and don’t complicate the reading. I wouldn’t have noticed the incorrect grammar if you hadn’t mentioned it. Use of edgy catch-phrases and “hipster words” is a commonly used in marketing to make a product/brand appear personal and fresh. There is, of course, a balance to these things, but I doubt many will dock points for the issue your raised.

By: Philip Witte

Philip Witte — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Yes, nice work, lol

By: alex285

alex285 — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:04:00 +0000

About “in-your-face-ads”, I hope you like my “art” (on next post) with my awesome but limited Gimp skills :)

By: alex285

alex285 — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:19:00 +0000

Ok, thank you!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:13:00 +0000

Please don’t write “gonna replace it”, it cheapens your presentation. It’s “going to replace it”. Gonna is a word used by people who don’t know better in every day speech, it is not for good, detailed articles like this.

By: Philip Witte

Philip Witte — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:58:00 +0000

I didn’t realize Gnome Shell was already using an LLVM OpenGL software backend. I haven’t tried GS in Virtualbox since 3.4 was released (or Unity for that matter), so I can’t really comment on the performance. But if GS is getting much better performance than Unity in software mode, I’d assume it’s because of limited effects (like Stiph said).

By: Philip Witte

Philip Witte — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:48:00 +0000

Yes, sorry, I wasn’t trying to put words in your mouth. I’ve just seen that argument around the internet in other places, recently. I do agree that, in general (this issue aside), Ubuntu 12.10 is one of the worst releases (poor performance, in-your-face-ads, etc…)

By: Stiph

Stiph — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:39:00 +0000

The Ubuntu move is what would have made sense from the beginning:
have a single rendering stack but provide a software backend.
Duplicating everything is a lot of time waste, even if the success could
come faster. I share the view of alex285 since Ubuntu day 1 in that
they do not invest on the correct architecture/strategy/long run but
focus on short term/patched solutions and less upstream/shared work. It
is not bad either, it is just a different strategy: a lot of companies
do that and succeeds. But when I see the amount of patches of some
packages, I wonder how they can still maintain some of their patches all
these years. On the long run I suppose it costs more (money, stability) but helps to deliver software faster.

By: Stiph

Stiph — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Well, since the opengl implementation might be LLVMpipe, it is important to minimize the number of effects/animation applied. Following a lot of bugs and development on gnome-shell, it seems to me the Gnome Shell developers always keep in mind the backend might be LLVMpipe.