On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:10 AM Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > Is there no GNOME Builder features we can talk about? Seems like we > haven't > > really talked about any of the developer type stuff in the release notes. > > The list I included was for the "for users" section. There will be a > "for developers" section too, as usual. > > Ah, makes perfect sense. > >> One thing I'm not sure about is how much attention to give multitouch > >> touchpad gestures, since they are a Wayland-only feature > ... > > My opinion is to hype it up, we do need testing of Wayland features. > Most > > of the Wayland bugs should be improved this round, right? Maybe Matthias > > can weigh in on it, but I personally would love to talk about Wayland > only > > features as teasers. > > That makes sense, and I'd be fine to mention it somewhere. The > question is one of prominence - it might sound a bit desperate to have > a headline feature that won't be "on by default". > > OK, that is a little clearer. If that is what you're thinking then yes, I think we probably don't want too much prominence, and could be a second tier teaser so to speak. > > I don't see why Wayland won't be accessible to most people, it's just a > > decision of which session, right? I assume you mean that the Wayland > > experience in GNOME is still not going to be quite good enough to > warrant a > > full switch? > > I was hoping that this would be the release where we declare that > GNOME is "Wayland ready". However, it seems like we're not quite there > yet (Christian's recent blog post on the subject [1] is probably a > good indication of where things are at right now). > > Yeah, there is this one thing in regards to ssh-agent that has been driving me crazy with the Wayland session. Since I use ssh a lot, it's quite painful to have to authenticate for every ssh and certainly the alternatives is also painful. I look forward to testing the Wayland session from gnome-continuous. sri > Allan > > [1] > https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2015/08/19/fedora-workstation-next-steps-wayland-and-graphics/ >
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