WOW, Wayland over Wire (2016)

[eklavya]

In the comments the author says, it's not happening.

"Wayland network transparency will likely be handled at the compositor level, and not in libwayland, so this work never evolved beyond a proof of concept."

[krylon]

As a regular end user, I don't care where this is handled, as long as it is handled.

Network transparency is, to me, the killer feature of X11. I am aware that security on X11 is atrocious at best and that a replacement is needed, but any successor without network transparency is inacceptable to me.

Worse, actually, there are a number of other Unix systems (and even non-Unix systems) around that speak X11. In fact, the killer feature of X11 is cross platform network transparency. Unless other platforms adopt Wayland or a common wire protocol, that is lost, too.

[morekozhambu]

If only they could try a [Mosh - Mobile Shell](https://mosh.org/) type of design for graphics over the wire that would be really cool. !!

[eiffelveh]

A few years ago I tested Xpra, maybe it would suit your needs, it's "screen for x11" : http://xpra.org/

[craftkiller]

I think QUIC would be simple to integrate and you'd get most of the benefits of mosh (roaming, intermittent connectivity) without having to change the architecture to do state synchronization like mosh uses.

[jlebrech]

all we need is a webassembler client for wayland and byebye html.

[cesnja]

Check out [1], it's kind of related. Although I suppose that the ease of building html+css+js apps could hardly be superseded by any desktop framework..

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html

[mirekrusin]

HTML killer? :) Not sure if there are enough combinations in the unix timestamp left for it to happen.

[BHSPitMonkey]

Finally, perfection is within our reach.

[jackweirdy]

The WOW starts now

[Sunset]

Nice ungooglealbe name, it horribly conflicts with World Of Warcraft and Windows On Windows(the syswow64 subsistem of windows)

[pawadu]

Well, sometimes this is exactly what you want - try to find a pirate copy of the movie xXx :)