Matthias Clasen wrote: > As you may have seen, I have proposed[1] that GNOME should move towards > Wayland. We hope to have experimental Wayland compositor support in GNOME > shell in the fall, and a complete port of the GNOME desktop a year from now. > See [2] for more details. > > What does this mean for Fedora ? > > I don't think this will affect the rest of the distribution in a majorly > disruptive way. In particular, it won't force other desktop environments to > move away from X. gdm will learn to launch Wayland-based sessions, but it will > still be able to start X-based sessions. X applications will continue to run > as they used to, including remotely. And GNOME applications will continue to > work under X. > > Here is what I envision: > > f19: > - wayland + weston (the reference Wayland compositor) are available > - gtk3 and clutter are built with their Wayland backends > - it is possible to test individual GTK+ applications under weston, by > setting GDK_BACKEND=wayland > > f20: > - will have a gnome-shell that can run as a Wayland compositor > - gdm can start Wayland and X sessions > - there will be an experimental GNOME/Wayland session in the session chooser > (probably in an optional package) - most GNOME apps can run under Wayland > - the X-based GNOME will still be the default > > f21: > - the Wayland based GNOME will be the default > - a GNOME/X session will still be available > > (of course, all of this may change, depending on how the porting works out). > > > [1] > [https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-March/msg00059.html > [2] https://live.gnome.org/Wayland I'm also curious about how wayland might work with kde. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
