[arch-general] Wayland and Archlinux
Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X? Other bleeding edge distros mentioned they will be adopting it [1], [2] I am not saying Archlinux should follow, just asking if there is (was) any discussion about it. [1]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/145273.html [2]: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X?
I'm not aware of any discussions. If I understand correctly, we won't have to make a decision either way, we can just add support for Wayland to the various parts of the stack as it becomes available, and people can chose for themselves. That said, most toolkits and window managers are not yet ready for Wayland, so at the moment it is not much point in doing this (unless you are helping with testing/development). -t
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X?
I'm not aware of any discussions.
If I understand correctly, we won't have to make a decision either way, we can just add support for Wayland to the various parts of the stack as it becomes available, and people can chose for themselves. That said, most toolkits and window managers are not yet ready for Wayland, so at the moment it is not much point in doing this (unless you are helping with testing/development).
-t
Hey Tom- I would be happy to do testing for wayland, and development (although I am lacking time..). Is there some other devs interested in it? I think we need to start with some tracking down toolkits and WM that require some work. Cheers L. -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}
On 03/08/12 00:55, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X?
I'm not aware of any discussions.
If I understand correctly, we won't have to make a decision either way, we can just add support for Wayland to the various parts of the stack as it becomes available, and people can chose for themselves. That said, most toolkits and window managers are not yet ready for Wayland, so at the moment it is not much point in doing this (unless you are helping with testing/development).
-t
Hey Tom-
I would be happy to do testing for wayland, and development (although I am lacking time..). Is there some other devs interested in it? I think we need to start with some tracking down toolkits and WM that require some work.
Cheers L.
Sure you can do testing for Wayland, there is even an AUR package for it [1]. There is also a wiki page, which you edit and add documentation [2]. 1. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30350 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland -- Jelle van der Waa
2012/8/3 Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl>:
On 03/08/12 00:55, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X?
I'm not aware of any discussions.
If I understand correctly, we won't have to make a decision either way, we can just add support for Wayland to the various parts of the stack as it becomes available, and people can chose for themselves. That said, most toolkits and window managers are not yet ready for Wayland, so at the moment it is not much point in doing this (unless you are helping with testing/development).
-t
Hey Tom-
I would be happy to do testing for wayland, and development (although I am lacking time..). Is there some other devs interested in it? I think we need to start with some tracking down toolkits and WM that require some work.
Cheers L.
Sure you can do testing for Wayland, there is even an AUR package for it [1]. There is also a wiki page, which you edit and add documentation [2].
1. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30350 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland
-- Jelle van der Waa
Em, Version 1.0 is out. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-October/005967.html
Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X? We're Archlinux, we start in command line and have to pacman -S xorg-server to even get the basic Xorg server. Wayland will be the same, more than likely we will have either multiple versions of stuff or include support for both. At least until Wayland is or is almost ubiquitous.
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Jelle van der Waa
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John Hutchison
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Leonidas Spyropoulos
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Tom Gundersen
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