Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-21 Thread Laurent Bigonville
On 19/06/19 22:19, Simon McVittie wrote: [...] I would very much appreciate input from the rest of the team, particularly: - Laurent: I know you've had strong opinions about using Wayland for GNOME. Do you feel strongly that Debian should be defaulting to Wayland? Are there any reasons

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Preserving the rather large CC list for now… On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 06:05:22AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: I feel very uncomfortable with a change as big as this revert happening this late in the release cycle. How big is big? The MR I raised resurrects a patch that changes one line of code,

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.06.19 um 11:25 schrieb Jonathan Carter: > I just have a small proposal: > > Selecting "Gnome on Xorg" is really easy from GDM for anyone who has > trouble on Wayland. It might be worth while adding that to the release > notes so that users who are not quite ready for Wayland yet know that >

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Sam Hartman
I'm writing with my DPL hat on in the role of a facilitator/mediator. I have no actual power in this situation and it is entirely reasonable to ignore me. I feel very uncomfortable with a change as big as this revert happening this late in the release cycle. I think that my reading of how the

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everyone Am 20.06.19 um 11:12 schrieb Iain Lane: >> I've left some comments on >> https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gdm/merge_requests/8 regarding the >> technical side of the proposed change. > Someone could probably look in Ubuntu's gdm3 package to see what we're > doing. We provide

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Iain Lane
Hi Simon, others, Thanks to those involved so far in shepherding this side of the issue along. And also for poking me (repeatedly!) to reply. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 09:19:49PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 17:33:55 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > So far as I am aware

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Biebl writes: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:16:58 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I'm just a GNOME user, but from gdm3's changelog the default was >> switched to Wayland in July 2017 (or August 2017 for unstable). I >> myself only noticed the switch after reading it happened somewhere on >>

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:16:58 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Jonathan Dowland writes: > > So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME > > packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the > > patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667)

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey there, Le 19/06/2019 à 22:19, Simon McVittie a écrit : - Ubuntu GNOME team: which recent Ubuntu versions, if any, are using Wayland for their GNOME-based desktop? We don't have any supported Ubuntu version using Wayland by default, our motivations for sticking to Xorg were mostly

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 17:33:55 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME > packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the > patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667) remains > at an RC severity.

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jonathan Dowland writes: > So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME > packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the > patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667) remains > at an RC severity. > > I've not yet read all the thread that

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi Andrew So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667) remains at an RC severity. I've not yet read all the thread that Samuel linked to[1] but it

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-14 Thread Andrew Hayzen
Hi, Is there going to be an ACK or NACK decision on this before the buster release? As an outsider I understand the advantages of Wayland, but I am concerned about the implications of Wayland as default at this point to a "stable" release. Having the whole session and apps lost if the shell

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just so that the info is recorded here as well: as discussed on https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2019/02/msg4.html Wayland does not provide yet the support that the Orca screen reader needs to provide proper support for blind people (keyboard shortcuts for GUI review,

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-05-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
reassign 927667 gdm3 tags 927667 +patch thanks On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:26:07AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Two ways of resolving this are: Either the default GNOME3 session in Debian switched back to Xorg, or the default desktop session is switched away from GNOME; but I would much prefer

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-05-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi Michael, Thank you for sharing your take. On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:21:22AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Then there is the case, that I sometimes need to use software like teamviewer (I know, bad proprietary software), which is not Wayland ready. I need something cross-plattform though,

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Jonathan, besides the excellent summary from Simon, I can mainly provide some personal feedback. Every now and then, I try the GNOME/Wayland session, but so far I've always switched back to GNOME/Xorg. My biggest gripe is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032 I.e. mouse animation

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-05-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
severity 927667 serious thanks [ I wrote the following reply to smcv's last mail to this bug, but only sent it to -desktop: https://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2019/05/msg0.html ] Thanks to Simon for filing this bug in the first place and for engaging in discussion about the issue. My

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-04-20 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.30+1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: Jonathan Dowland , debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org, debian-desk...@lists.debian.org On the debian-devel mailing list, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I was surprised to learn — by way of synaptic being autoremoved — that > the