Linked by Rahul on Tue 4th Nov 2008 06:17 UTC
Kristian Hogsberg, Red Hat Xorg developer and the key person behind successful projects such as AIGLX, has now started working on a new project called Wayland, a tiny display server and compositing manager.
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Er, hello!? Syllable www.syllable.org, Haiku haiku-os.org have had slim, modern, legacy-free GUI appservers for years!
you've forgotten SkyOS, and the most prominent of all non - Windows desktop Os's, Mac OS X ;-)
btw, with Vista, Windows too has gained a quite similar visual stack architecture - the DWM does pretty much the same task as the "application server" of other OS's
in reality, it is Linux that is the only one alleged "desktop operating system" still stuck with such an old and overly complex GUI system, instead of a more modern and streamlined architecture...
Edited 2008-11-04 15:42 UTC
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I think there was an implicit "for Linux" in there. Obviously other OSes have different graphics systems with more or less legacy stuff thrown in. Also, any standard used by lots of apps is going to develop legacy hair. It's just a reality of infrastructure stuff like this. Deal with it.
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2006-01-17
Finally someone starts experimenting with new ways to do a graphical server, without all the obsolete stuff stuffed into X11.
I don't expect X server to go away, there are lots of useful stuff there. Eventually this new protocol could become part of it (i.e. X server could become support layer for multiple graphical protocols).