Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[Marek Janukowicz]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> 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.

If we are discussing X's shortcomings: why don't we use something like 
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ which will (hopefully) become next big 
standard and which addresses many of X's flaws?

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Marek Janukowicz