On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:33:38 +0200 Alexandru Lazar <[email protected]> wrote:
(I'm somehow missed your post) > > 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 outdated, abysmal and absent. Are you referring to this[1]? If so, than indeed, five year old docs for constantly changing project seems not good at all. > 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. Seems like Wayland is not-there-yet[2], although it is used by default as display server for Fedora with different effect (it doesn't play well for my co-workers laptop). That's pity. OTOH it seems, that commercial Linux players (as you have it phrased) have strong motivation for making X obsolete, hence my question. Well, time will tell, how long X will last. [1] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#Wayland_issues -- Roman Dobosz -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
