[colug-432] wondering about Wayland

[Rick Troth]

In RPi space, Wayland is catching on.  It is expected to replace X.
But I have a question.

Given the bloat of vestigial requirements, and the evident chattiness
of the protocol, it seems reasonable to say goodbye eventually.  And X
never did audio when used remotely.  But it is that remote capability
(and broad interoperability) that I most appreciate about X.

Interop will only happen when there is wide adoption.
But do any of you know if Wayland can talk remotely?
That's the question.

I'm looking for the ability of an application to be a "client" of a
remote "display server".  It's wonderful to be able to launch, say,
Thunderbird on one machine while the rest of my desktop (window
mangler and all the rest) are running on another.  (Aside from the
pain of X chattiness, that is.)  If it's not there already, I wonder
how some of us could stick a bug in the ear of the Wayland developers.

Of course, it would be good if the "protocol" would accommodate audio
as well as video.

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