Bug#892657: enlightenment should be built with Wayland support and enable x11 or Wayland selection for GDN login

[Ross Vandegrift]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 08:43:14PM +0100, wei hong wrote:
> The new version of enlightenment in the experimental Debian repo does not
> appear to be built with Wayland support

That's correct - I'd like to support Wayland, but so far I've been unable to
get a Wayland enabled build working with X11.

A work-in-progress patch is in #891392.  Fixes welcome!

> Ideally, enlightenment would be built to support both Wayland and X11
> variants and by default allow selecting one of the two options (similar to
> Gnome) via the GDM login prompt options.

This is the approach in the patch mentioned above.

Ross

Bug#892657: enlightenment should be built with Wayland support and enable x11 or Wayland selection for GDN login

[wei hong]

Package: enlightenment
Version: 0.22.1-2
Severity: low
Tags: experimental,e22,enlightenment,e17

Thanks for adding a recent version of enlightenment to Debian! :) Awesome work. 
Just a couple possible suggestions.

The new version of enlightenment in the experimental Debian repo does not 
appear to be built with Wayland support and doesn't appear to be selectable via 
GDM logon. As with the latest releases of Gnome, Wayland support is enabled and 
selectable via GDM login. Ideally, enlightenment would be built to support both 
Wayland and X11 variants and by default allow selecting one of the two options 
(similar to Gnome) via the GDM login prompt options. It is possible that there 
is support compiled in, but it is not currently selectable via GDM (unsure 
here). To build in support, you simply compile with the -Dwayland=true option. 
No idea if GDM will automatically handle raising the option to the user though 
or if something more needs to be done to enable it.

May also affect the e17 named package.