Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us
> While I do personally believe Wayland is going to become The Linux Display Server Of The Future®<p>Best i can understand, wayland is a protocol spec rather than a set of code like X. Each compositor/wm is individually responsible for implementing said protocol and thus take over the job of X (input handling et al).<p>Meaning that there will no longer be an X server to act as a independent arbiter of behavior. Whatever the devs of whatever DE you are logged into will have the final word.<p>The more i learn of Wayland, the more i expect it to turn into a hairball to match X. Only now without a network option ("too insecure"), and with GPU acceleration.<p>BTW, why are we so bent out of shape about this seats concept? Why oh why are we continually trying to turn a single user piece of hardware into a desktop mainframe?!