Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: OT: Wayland Date: 12 Oct 2015 05:24:19 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <511299436.466175933.550248.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87wpuur04s.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <20151011094110.158ba0e0ef48d4a1e1c8922e@eircom.net> <87pp0lt3tv.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 16ATfpoJYJRmNS2MaXh2VAhS1eehxJ47yLLgTJiowBw9mkf+8U Cancel-Lock: sha1:M2EW+fzaRuO995k//8pUNRIVwzM= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:152718 On 2015-10-11, Mike Spencer wrote: > > Dan Espen writes: > >> wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) writes: >> >>> Dan Espen wrote: >>> >>>> For me, the Wayland deal breaker is lack of remote single window >>>> support. >>> >>> Oof. You mean no /etc/X0.hosts? No setting DISPLAY to the >>> host I just telnetted in from? That would cramp my style. >>> I was afraid of that, but assumed that they'd surely, surely >>> fix it. >> >> They seem to think remote desktop is an adequate substitute. >> Talk about mimicking Windows. > > Um, yeah, so what if you don't *use* a "desktop"? How does that work > with twm? Or how, then, do you get the bare bones simplicity of twm at > all? > > Don't want a "desktop", don't want all the gigs of stuff required to > support one, don't care about drag & drop or all the other chrome (not > Chrome :-). Where is Wayland going with plain and simple? Plain and simple is dead. :o( -- I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.