I like the idea. Just another idea for the naming, about
wayland-desktop-session?
Regards,
Stephan
On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, 21:15 Simon McVittie, <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 4.6.0.1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
>
> GNOME's gdm3 and KDE's sddm both enumerate possible Wayland sessions in
> /usr/{,local/}share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop and make them available
> as desktop sessions that users can choose, in addition to listing the
> X11 sessions that they traditionally did.
>
> At the moment, installing gdm3 pulls in either gnome-session (a minimal
> GNOME desktop), or some sort of X11 thing (usually a session manager,
> but sometimes a window manager or an xterm), but it should ideally
> be possible to install gdm3 as a login prompt from which to launch a
> non-GNOME Wayland session like weston or sway.
>
> I propose this entry for virtual-package-names-list.yaml:
>
> - name: wayland-session
> description: a Wayland desktop session
> (/usr/share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop)
>
> According to `apt-file search`, it should initially be provided by these:
>
> gnome-session: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome.desktop
> phosh: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/phosh.desktop
> plasma-workspace-wayland: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasmawayland.desktop
> sway: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop
> weston: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/weston.desktop
>
> and perhaps also (I don't know how practical this one is for actual use):
>
> mir-demos: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/mir-shell.desktop
>
> Rationale for not using the names people are probably going to suggest:
>
> - wayland-compositor would be wrong, because it's too low-level. Some
> Wayland compositors are a somewhat complete desktop environment in their
> own right, but for example plasma-workspace-wayland and gnome-session
> are larger components that merely *depend on* a Wayland compositor, plus
> the additional components needed to get a practical desktop environment;
> meanwhile, kwin-wayland and gnome-shell are Wayland compositors, but
> are not desktop environments on their own.
>
> - wayland-session-manager seems like it would be misleading, because an X
> session manager has specific functional expectations (XSMP) separating
> it from an mere x-window-manager, but there's no such thing in Wayland.
>
> smcv
>
>
