Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/15/13 12:42 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 18:35:22 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> I've only done X11 forwarding over ssh, both WAN and LAN, it was
>> incredibly laggy in both cases.
>
> You're probably using bloated apps! I'm using my crappygui.d on remote X
> and it works quite well. Of course it is mostly rectangles of solid
> colors :)
>
> I also just tried creating an OpenGL window remotely, and it performed
> reasonably well too, drawing some colorful triangles. I think I'll add
> some minimal support for creating opengl contexts to simpledisplay.d,
> that's useful stuff.

The X Window System is slow by design, particularly when used over a 
network (regardless how fast). There are various proxies and alternate 
remoting protocols that avoid its inherent latencies. At work we use OpenNX.


Andrei