Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu...
by orangeboats on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:14AM
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Wayland does have network transparency, it's called waypipe.
But caveats apply: applications which use the GPU are network translucent. You'd need VNC or other forms of streaming for that.
Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu...
by Vilian on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:25AM
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i didn't find that mentioned on waypipe, could you link a issue that mention that?
Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu...
by orangeboats on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:42AM
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It's an inherent limitation of any network transparent windowing protocols.
I think it's fair, considering we also leave out stuff that X11 can do that wayland can't do (and will likely never be able to do).
Example: network transparency. I still occasionally have to save the day by doing `ssh -X` and run some stuff on a remote host (but having a window be displayed on a local X11 server).
And I already foresee some idiot coming here and commenting that "you're not supposed to do that" to which i pre-reply: not all companies are FAANGS that can rework and rebuild everything that's sub-optimal. Many (most?) of us have to do the best with what we've got.