The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 11, 2013 5:07 UTC (Tue) by russell (guest, #10458)
Parent article: The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

So when will we be using it as a default for distros? Last I heard weston was rejecting certain patches because it's just a testing ground. Does that mean every project is going to write there own version of weston? Sounds like we are starting all over again. Or did I mis-understand.

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 11, 2013 13:02 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

It was the plan earlier, but Weston is definitely more than "just an example" now. Kinda like "nothing-serious-like-GNU" Linux.

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 12, 2013 10:20 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Don't rely on Phoronix for your news :P

GNOME shell will takeover some parts what Weston is doing AFAIK (+it was a logical thing to do). Making GNOME 3 fully work (on screen keyboard, accessibility, etc) will provide enough guidance on which things are lacking. Seems better to focus on the needs of current DEs (KDE, GNOME) rather than making another.