From Fedora Docs (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Wayland)
>To avoid destabilizing the X compositor, mutter will ship two separate libraries, and gnome-shell will ship two binaries that will link against them. Concretely, we plan to have a separate mutter-wayland package.
Mutter-Wayland in GNOME 3.13.1 is merged to Mutter, so how can have 2 different packages?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
Jaroslav Reznik wrote on 30.04.2014 16:27:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Jaroslav Reznik wrote on 29.04.2014 14:04:
>> > Port the GNOME desktop to Wayland.
>>
>> Sorry, but what is actually proposed here? The above sentence for me
>> doesn't make any sense(¹), as Gnome 3.12 is able to run on Wayland
>> already (not perfectly, but it works afaik), so it was ported already
>> I'd say.
>>
>> Is this about integrating this work in Fedora? Or more porting work? Or
>> even make Wayland the default in F21? The section "How To Test" sounds
>> as if the later is the case, but it's not entirely clear to me.
>>
>> (¹) This is not the first change proposal where the summary or theI know. Many thanks for all your hard work.
>> "Detailed Description" is more confusing then helpful to me (which makes
>> me write this mail). It afaics would help a lot if those areas would use
>> words that ordinary people (think of people that have only basic
>> computer skills here) would be able to understand.
>
> I usually try to work with change owners on clear wording,
> […]
But we know the public reads them, as those that write websites, blogs
> For wording - Changes are *not* supposed to be read by general public,
and sometimes even magazines articles will pick these things up --
especially in cases like this. Unclear words or statements thus could
lead to confusion or bad press.
Side note: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well
enough."
Thus FESCo, ordinary developers like me (we get these change propose
> it's internal planning tool and docs/marketing guys makes it consumable
> in the end.
mails for a reason) and docs/marketing should be able to properly
understand it -- which afaics to often is not the case :-/
+1
> But generally I agree - better wording, better understanding.
CU
knurd
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