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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