Re: Plan to organize the Wayland-by-default effort

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Alex Bisogiannis <alexixor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 9 Dec 2015, at 18:19, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 10:47 -0500, Kevin E Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The next step is determining which of these features must be
>>> implemented
>>> before we can enable Wayland by default in Fedora Workstation.
>>
>> To make a start on this, here is my own assessment of the list from the
>> wiki. I'm not too confident that discussing this on the list is going
>> to yield great results, but here it goes:
>>
>> 1 - blocker
>> 2 - important
>> 3 - not important
>> 4 - works today, or NAKed
>>
>>
>> 2    1 remote display
>> 4    2 screencast
>> 1    3 primary selection
>> 1    4 dnd actions
>> 2    5 Other dnd features
>> 2    6 kinetic scrolling
>> 1    7 input methods
>> 2    8 on-screen keyboard
>> 2    9 relative/locking pointer confinement
>> 4    10 hi-dpi support
>> 3    11 attached modal dialogs
>> 1    12 tablet support
>> 1    13 startup notification
>> 1    14 clipboard proxy for xwayland
>> 1    15 touch proxy for xwayland
>> 2    16 accessibility features
>> 2    17 output rotation
>> 4    18 XRandR control of Wayland outputs
>> 3    19 Device and Driver information
>> 4    20 screensaver control
>> 3    21 Xfree86-VidModeExtension in Xwayland
>> 3    22 XVideo extension in Xwayland
>> 3    23 Optional surface IDs
>> 3    24 Hotplug USB devices
>> 2    25 Outputs on secondary GPUs
>> 4    26 Window size hints
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>
> Apologies for top posting, but iPhone :(
>
> I want to ask why is tablet support critical?
>
> Is this a primary market for Fedora?
> Also is there a range of supported tablets that can run Fedora as a production OS?
> If yes, can someone point me to some information?

This is a guess on my part, but it might be more "hybrid laptop" than
"pure tablet".  The existence of Yoga, Surface, and iPad Pro like
devices is increasing, and people are going to naturally want to be
able to use them in both modes.

josh
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