-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2014 09:42 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 2 April 2014 14:26, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > >>> Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> On 04/01/2014 09:49 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>>> That would be the responsibility of the WM's themselves. >>>>> WM's have to add support. Not the other way around as you >>>>> seem to think. >>>> >>>> Which is why I pointed out that the question was if fvwm >>>> works with Wayland, not the other way around. >>> > >> This means that in order to get all these capabilities, the >> individual Window Managers will need to adapt to the new API. If >> they do not, there is effort to provide a compatibility layer >> called XWayland that will allow it to emulate the behavior of a >> classic X Windows environment. This is still a work in progress >> (and is not perfect), but it's an effort to ease this migration. >> > > I know you weren't reply to me, but this is really the point I > wanted to make: to take advantage of Wayland it makes absolute > sense that applications will need to use a new API. But breaking > WMs, toolkits and applications (whether they use toolkits or X > directly doesn't much matter if they don't work) and saying it's > their fault for not updating isn't really a goer, a compatibility > layer is a must. If the I don't think anyone has ever said that, except the baseless accusations made in this very thread :) As I said, XWayland exists for this very purpose. It's not perfect, but neither is the rest of Wayland, yet. This need is not being ignored by anyone. > new API is so much better people will move eventually if the new > features are needed. If they're not needed then forcing a change > is just creating unnecessary work. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlM8GTMACgkQeiVVYja6o6N7kwCfb05AO+wMFz5ASSfmnz21+gXa wCUAnR2JeIJ8RktXrNEauMjk6KTPyR25 =HyRv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
