On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:05:02 -0400 Christopher Michael <cpmich...@osg.samsung.com> said:
> On 06/27/2015 01:14 AM, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:11:45 -0400 Mike Blumenkrantz > > <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said: > > > >> With a few minor exceptions in Wayland, all target features for the E20 > >> release have been met. As such, I am planning to commence an > >> everything-but-wayland feature freeze on Friday, 3 July 2015. > >> > >> If anyone has things that they want to push in or implement before the > >> freeze begins, I'm open to moving back the date as necessary--within > >> reason. I will not, however, be very receptive to adding new features once > >> the release cycle freeze has begun. > > > > actually - devilhorns. > > > > you need to pipe in here - what is the wayland state, and what would there > > be left to drop in after july 3 and what timetable? > > > > As far as what is left: DnD needs a bit of testing/tweaking yet as there > are some little buggers floating in there (I'll be hacking on that come > Monday). We have pending patches to support wl_text_input and > wl_input_method (https://phab.enlightenment.org/D2275) however we cannot > "securely" push those until we have a working VKbd implementation to go > with them. I pinged shiin to see if he could also hack up a vkbd to go with. > > While not a Top priority, support for wl_scaler and wl_viewport would be > remaining things to drop in after July 3. We have pending patches for > that also (https://phab.enlightenment.org/D2485) however those need some > refactoring. > > > i am saying this from the perspective that we get a fair number of "does e > > run wayland yet" kind of questions and the answer is always nebulous. i > > think we want a clear state of play for an e20 release. > > > > While I have not tested it yet, Mike has updated/refactored my initial > XWayland branch and pushed that upstream already which means we should > have working XWayland support now. I've not tested it yet myself however > he did manage to get Firefox running with it (which is good news) :) > > E/Elm apps are running good in E-Wl. Gtk apps also (tho Some gtk apps > have popup menu placement issues according to Phab reports). I don't > suspect that those are Major issues and likely will take little time to fix. > > QT apps on the other hand are a whole different can of worms. Apparenly, > QT5 has not been updated yet to support xdg_shell version 5 which means, > while the apps do run, they have quite a few issues. I spoke with RzR > about it and he plans to update QT5 to support xdg_shell version 5 which > should address issues there. > > There are a few pending buggers listed on Phab which I/we will be > addressing in the coming weeks tho I don't think any of them are Major > problems (in terms of functionality). > > It is likely that I may be forgetting something in this list, so if you > can think of something I may have missed, please ask. the question reading between the lines from users is: "can i now use E20 to switch to wayland?" :) i've talked with you about this - i know that i personally can't. my 2 main desktop systems have new nvidia rigs and literally have zero nouveau support. i know i'm not the only one and for many nouveau is still iffy. i am sure we could get more people working on wayland if we could run "e in a window" in x11 - ie wl-x11. like weston does. with a but of imagination it'd be possible to get full acceleration for egl working too. from a pr point of view, for many people they'd like to "see how e wayland is going" without having to drop out of x11 to do it. this'd help answer a lot of questions people have. :) it'd also mean a LOT more helping getting wayland moving along. btw - how goes session recovering with uuid's etc. ... stefan? -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
