Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[barryharris]

On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 20:33:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 20:13:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 20:00:31 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> The concept is to build a client-server GUI runtime that is 
>>> as simple as possible on the client side.
>>
>> Are you familiar with X11? It is the 80's version of that 
>> concept. There's some downsides though to this model; it is 
>> pretty sensitive to network latency, especially.
> You mentioned X11 to me before, when we talked about this idea 
> over email.  I'm not very familiar with X11, but when I looked 
> at the X11 reference, it seems that it provides for a lot more 
> commands and complexity in the client than I have in mind.  I 
> don't think X11 is well optimized, as I've found it laggy 
> simply when running xterm or small GUI apps on a local wifi 
> network with extremely low latency.
>

Have you seen this?

http://wayland.freedesktop.org/