Wayland or X11? Why? - eviltoast
  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Agree, network transparency is a super power user feature.

    And frankly VNC is good enough.

    I just found it sad that a really powerful feature was dismissed as “no-one actually wants this” (yes I do) and “just use VNC” (I shouldn’t have to) and “just plug a monitor in” (well yeah).

    I would have hoped that is have been a protocol extension or something rather than outright dismissed as “doing it wrong”.

    • Gamey@feddit.rocks
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      1 year ago

      I think thee main reason for some of Waylands feature cuts next to security and legacy stuff no one needs anymore is the unmaintainable giant X11 became but I agree, some sort of reliable way to extend the protocol directly would be cool to have eventually, usually that stuff shouldn’t really be in the protocol itself ether tho!

    • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Oh hell no. Vnc isn’t application specific, dynamically resizable, and requires adding that to remote hosts when ssh and x is already there. You know nothing, John Snow.