hi Jeremy; yes, unported applications still using X11 should be able to run unmodified under an hybrid X/Wayland compositor. what Matthias was detailing for the 3.12 cut-off cycle is running GNOME Shell as a Wayland compositor by default, instead of an X11 one.
ciao, Emmanuele. On 15 March 2013 20:44, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 March 2013 14:32, Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> wrote: >> As far as a roadmap is concerned, I am fairly optimistic that we can >> have gnome-shell work as a Wayland compositor within 6 months. That >> will allow us to have optional Wayland support in GNOME 3.10, while >> still using X by default. Reaching this milestone by 3.10 will enable >> experimentation with Wayland, and should help us to take the next step >> for GNOME 3.12: a fully converted desktop, with no regressions. If we >> realize during 3.12 development that we won't be able to close all >> feature gaps in time for 3.12, it should be possible to keep >> gnome-shell on X for one more cycle without affecting the rest of the >> desktop too much. > > Hi, just to clarify: For 3.12, you would like to drop support for > running gnome-shell or mutter on X directly and only support Wayland? > I understand that X apps will still run on top of GNOME Shell on > Wayland. > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
