Hi, > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:10:42AM -0400, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > So indeed, you cannot restart gnome-shell in Wayland, it's pretty > > much by design, just like you cannot restart weston if you use weston > > as your Wayland compositor. > > > > But is being able to restart gnome-shell such an important feature? > > Isn't that a debug (user hitting alt-f2 + "r", what's the real use > > case for that, in a normal, regular user session?) - What matters > > more, imho, is that gnome-shell is robust enough so that it doesn't > > crash. > > This should probably be added to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features > even if it's not exactly a feature. (Both the ability to restart > intentionally and the ability to recover from a shell crash with > minimal user disruption.) > > I can add it to the wiki if need be, although it's probably better if > someone with domain expertise does. Sure, it's now added to the Wayland feature page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features#Restarting_gnome-shell Cheers, Olivier -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
