Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Wayland Is Ending The Simple Linux Window Manager" video.

  1. Much lower overhead. Also simplicity.
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  2. There are notes for a proposed “X12”, which you will find on the xorg site somewhere. That’s been knocking around for years ... decades. The trouble is, X is full of legacy baggage (like graphics rendering calls) that needs to be dumped. At one time it even provided a font server, but luckily they were able to get rid of that. Once you remove this stuff, you realize the basic architecture of X, which allowed for having such things in the first place, is over-complicated.
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  3. What kind of GUI architecture does Plan 9 support?
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  4.  @notuxnobux  Actually, it does. The way X works, is every UI widget is a “window”. Typically window decorations are created by wrapping the client-created window inside a window-manager-created window.
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