[arch-general] Wayland and Archlinux

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 03/08/12 00:55, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos
>> <artafinde at 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

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