Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Wayland DOES Support Network Transparency!!" video.

@dutchangle229 Very few applications really use X, I believe all the common toolkits render locally and send the results as a bitmap to the server.
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I thought running OpenGL applications using X over the network has been broken for decades.
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@rallias1 I'll need to investigate this. Also keep in mind that a modern CPU can probably handle software rendering vanilla Minecraft. If you pull the F3 debug screen it wouldn't surprise me if you were actually rendering using llvmpipe.
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@CoolerQ With modern applications it doesn't make sense to have the GPU running on a separate machine from the application, the final bitmap is much smaller than the intermediate data. The Wayland protocol only supports bitmaps so presumably waypipe must as well.
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@guss77 When you connect to Windows using RDP app mode there is no need for Explorer to be running, so I wouldn't call it a full desktop. You can also run multiple applications over a single connection. I don't know if the underlying protocol requires a dummy framebuffer or not (it might be an implementation detail) and from a user standpoint it doesn't matter. VNC is definitely a dumb framebuffer and is no fun. For X applications Xpra works pretty well. I imagine it's possible to add support for Wayland applications. If nothing else, a "reverse xwayland" could be used as a shim.
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