Re: Wayland for GUI

On 2023-07-18 12:02, Enno Rehling wrote:
> I can't speak for Joeron, but if I were in his shoes, my thinking
> qould go like this:
> 
> I wouldn't expect it to mean much for Fox. X11 still works pretty much
> everywhere that Wayland exists, via XWayland, so support for Wayland
> does not broaden the range of machines that a Fox application will run
> on, it only adds complexity and support overhead with another backend.
> 
> And no, you can't drop X11 and replace it with Wayland. X11 is still
> the only way to get a Fox application to run on macOS, and nobody
> wants to add native Mac Cocoa support for the same reason: mo'
> backends, mo' problems.

Then there is the thing that, AFAIK, Wayland is not a drawing API
but a compositor.  So I'd still need a drawing API.

I am pondering XCB as an alternative to X11.  It would fix some issues.
XCB should work as well as X11 since wire-protocol is the same.

XCB has much fewer header files and much less complicated API, plus
it may be incrementally introduced; it could be a bit faster as well.

I'm open to other ideas, but keep in mind that there's a lot to rewrite
if underlying concepts change a lot.


     -- JVZ