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Wayland is optimized for car entertainment systems and digital signage. Is this your 99% case?
> X toolkits since GTK in 1998 have been drawing bitmaps to shared memory.
Not true. E.g. several Gtk2.x rendering backends utilized XRender to draw Buttons with gradients without a single bitmap in shared memory.
> X doesn't have the synchronization features that necessitated Wayland. It's simply not the case that X can do everything that Wayland can do.
The X11 extension "Present" does exactly the same as Wayland concerning "synchronization features". What exactly can Wayland do that X11 can't do?
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Wayland is optimized for car entertainment systems and digital signage. Is this your 99% case?
> X toolkits since GTK in 1998 have been drawing bitmaps to shared memory.
Not true. E.g. several Gtk2.x rendering backends utilized XRender to draw Buttons with gradients without a single bitmap in shared memory.
> X doesn't have the synchronization features that necessitated Wayland. It's simply not the case that X can do everything that Wayland can do.
The X11 extension "Present" does exactly the same as Wayland concerning "synchronization features". What exactly can Wayland do that X11 can't do?