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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: Wayland Is Coming
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 08:19:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 07:50:26 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 9 May 2024 07:39:00 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
>
>> If a framebuffer is all thats required now then whats the
>> point of Wayland?
>
>In a word? Compositing. We run modern multitasking OSes nowadays, 
>remember.

Do we? Thanks for the heads up. All thats needed is a thin layer above the
framebuffer level to marshal graphics requests. Compositing isn't complicated.

>>>You start with a graphics library to draw into the frame buffer. A good
>>>choice is Cairo <https://www.cairographics.org/>.
>> 
>> Oh give me a break.
>
>Give it a try. Then you earn the right to complain about it.

Whoosh....

My point was why should I have to pick a specific library to learn that may
well fall out of fashion when X11 provides an API thats been standardised for
decades.