On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:54 AM, Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 12:45:26AM -0500, Sean Vig wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > We have just tagged and released version 0.11.0 of qtile! This version > has > > been over 1 year in the making, and brings a lot of bug fixes, new > > features, and extra documentation up that has been worked on for a while. > > Thanks to everyone that contributed code, bug reports, and feedback for > > making this release possible. > > \o/ congrats! > > > Looking forward, I would like to see us move towards dropping Python 2, > > possibly marking this as the last Python 2 release or, or maybe plan for > > one more if there are any list bugs to squash first. > > Official python2 EOL is "sometime in 2020". Our 0.10.7 release (by my > count our last release) was almost exactly one year ago, so if we keep > our current pace, we can probably drop it in 2019 and be just fine :) > > > I would like to see us at least come up with a plan for moving to > > Wayland, as well. I feel like the Wayland ecosystem is gaining > > traction as more desktop environments are moving over, which means > > there are tools and libraries that will make such a move easier for > > us, but will likely take some re-architecting to decouple the core > > window management logic from X11 primitives. > > Agreed, Ubuntu has switched as of 17.10, and 18.04 will be the first > LTS with Wayland in it. I think the Fedora story is similar. > > I know you were working on wayland cffi bindings. Is that still the > place to start? > I think we'll want to build off of a library that helps us take care of some of the more system level stuff that will be hard to deal with from the Python front, handling EGL, input devices, DRM, etc. There is a lot of system level stuff that will be hard to get wrappers for all the right libraries and to manage all of those things properly. I remember Roger mentioning he had a cffi binding around wlc, and I saw recently that the Sway developers who maintain wlc were moving to wlroots, so we may want to look into those as options, but I think both will still need some wayland primitives from the core wayland cffi binding. Sean > > Cheers, > > Tycho > > > Thanks again to everyone, here's to more qtile! > > > > Sean > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
