I forgot cc to the list. Regards, Rodolfo
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Rodolfo (kix)" <[email protected]> Date: Mar 11, 2017 7:12 PM Subject: Re: Next relase and roadmap To: "Alexandru Lazar" <[email protected]> Cc: Hi Alex, this topic is not new. You can find mails about it in previous mails in this maillist. wmaker was written from the scratch and the X11 code is tied with the window manager logic. Is very hard to disconnect one to the other. I am trying to do it creating an abstraction layer between the wmaker code and the X11 code. The main idea is create a "virtual desktop" where are created the wmaker objects (menu, dock, clip,...). Then bind the "virtual desktop" to the "real desktop". Only the "real desktop" includes X11 functions. With this idea, we can use Wayland (rewriting the X11 code), we can switch monitors (for example in a laptop, unbinding the virtual desktop and the real destkop and binding with the new monitor/s), solve the XRandX issues, solve the Xinerama issues, reuse a lot of code (for example to position the Windows, Docks,...), and more. The main problem is that the code is very very very tied. I am trying to do it in other repo, and I am trying to update the repo with the wmaker patches, to allow compatibility or apply these ideas in wmaker in the future. I have a lot of patches in my laptop, not uploaded yet. You can take a look at https://github.com/awmaker Contributions are welcome. About Wayland, the last time I read about it, Wayland will include a legacy module to connect with X11 applications (like wmaker). Regards, kix On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Alexandru Lazar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm wondering if there are plans regarding rewriting wmaker to be an > > compositor on wayland? I know, that wayland is not widely used yet, > > but eventually it will replace X stack. Probably ;). Thoughts? > > I've been toying with the idea of writing a compositor with a NeXT-like > interface as a way to get myself acquainted with Wayland. > > Sadly, I haven't taken it past the "toying with" stage because, as far > as I can tell, Wayland-related documentation is somewhere between > outdated, abysmal and absent. > > That being said, unless they manage to mess up Wayland really, really > bad, I don't think X11 will be very relevant 4-6 years from now. Wayland > has a lot of big commercial Linux players behind it -- and those (by > which I mean that, by which I really mean Canonical) who aren't behind > it aren't behind X11 anyway. > > Alex > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected] > . > -- Rodolfo García "kix" http://www.kix.es/
