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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Wayland/en_US/Overview.xml b/doc/Wayland/en_US/Overview.xml
index c9990a9..51e451e 100644
--- a/doc/Wayland/en_US/Overview.xml
+++ b/doc/Wayland/en_US/Overview.xml
@@ -3,27 +3,14 @@
<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "Wayland.ent">
%BOOK_ENTITIES;
]>
-<chapter id="chap-Wayland-Overview">
- <title>Wayland Overview</title>
- <para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Wayland is a protocol for a new display server
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Weston is the open source project implementing a wayland-based
- copmositor
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
- <section id="sect-Wayland-Overview-Replacing-X11">
- <title>Replacing X11</title>
+<chapter id="chap-Introduction">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <section id="sect-Motivation">
+ <title>Motivation</title>
<para>
- In Linux and other Unix-like systems, the X stack has grown to
+ Most of Linux and Unix-based systems rely on the X Window System (or
+ simply <emphasis>X</emphasis>) as the low-level protocol for building
+ bitmap graphics interfaces. On these systems, the X stack has grown to
encompass functionality arguably belonging in client libraries,
helper libraries, or the host operating system kernel. Support for
things like PCI resource management, display configuration management,
@@ -76,8 +63,8 @@
</section>
- <section id="sect-Wayland-Overview-Make-compositing-manager-display-server">
- <title>Make the compositing manager the display server</title>
+ <section id="sect-Compositing-manager-display-server">
+ <title>Compositing manager as the display server</title>
<para>
Wayland is a new display server and compositing protocol, and Weston
is the implementation of this protocol which builds on top of all the