Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[barryharris]

On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 22:07:48 UTC, barryharris wrote:
> 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/

I only mention it as it might provide a good platform to build 
upon in D, or at least provide a solid place to start 
expermenting with ideas.

It's small and written in C. It also has a compositor component 
called Weston, again in C.