On 14/03/13 09:49, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > https://phab.enlightenment.org/phame/live/1/post/enlightenment_and_efl_backing_wayland/ > > --- > > Enlightenment is backing Wayland for our future display system, and for now > has > no plans concerning Mir. > > There has been a lot of kerfuffle about Ubuntu's new effort to make Mir, their > new display server. It has been made plain that this isn't A Wayland > Compositor > but is a whole new thing unrelated to Wayland, or X11. > > Regardless, there has been some dubious reasoning as to why Mir should exist > etc., but that aside, at this stage it is very immature and not much is able > to > be said one way or another. Time will tell. > > The purpose of this post is to make it clear, than we here in the > Enlightenment > world are backing Wayland already, and will continue to do so. We have been > backing it for a while now, with a port of EFL to Wayland already working, > with > input, display, OpenGL-ES2 and software shared memory rendering, client side > decorations and more. We also have support for Wayland clients in E17 (under > X11) and there is work going on to make Enlightenment support being a pure > Wayland compositor using KMS/DRM etc. > > It is our belief that supporting open community driven standards like Wayland > that allow for us all to agree and work together, and yet still allow for > individual expression per desktop environment (by making your own compositor > that speaks Wayland protocol) will ultimately succeed. There is nothing > technically wrong with Wayland at all, and nothing about the Mir project seems > at this stage to change that. We don't intend to do any work to support Mir, > and carrying extra Mir rendering engines and display system support will be an > added burden that we are not keen on, even if someone were to do the work. We > already maintain a lot of back-end rendering engines and display system > abstractions, and the cost is considerable to maintain. I don't see any value > in adding to that when there is no fundamental difference between Wayland an > Mir on any technical level in terms of capabilities. > > We wish the Mir develops all the best of luck in their endeavors, but we will, > for the foreseeable future, throw our efforts behind Wayland support, along > with our GTK+/GNOME and Qt/KDE etc. counterparts. >
I just wanted to add: Enlightenment compositor can now render Wayland Clients (code is in my dev branch). http://i.imgur.com/V3ssg9e.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnvYAKKPZI Cheers, dh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
