On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:18 PM Johan Vos <johan....@gluonhq.com> wrote: > > Hi Thiago, > > I was thinking (and experimenting) in the same direction, and so far that > is working good. I don't see disadvantages, but it would be good to find > out about it before we move forward. > Maybe the main issue to me is that GTK comes with lots of dependencies. We > already have that situation today, so it is not going to be worse. But if > we would use the Wayland protocol on a lower level (with a Wayland-specific > glass platform, instead of GTK), we could probably reduce the dependencies. > However, this comes at the price of creating *and maintaining* more > low-level code. > > I've been running GTK3 on Wayland and that works fine too. However, it > might be better to focus Wayland support for GTK4. I think there won't be > many installs that have no X11, but only Wayland, and that have GTK3 and no > GTK4.
I tend to agree with you, I think we should consider this for Wakefield too. Cheers, Mario > - Johan > - Johan > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:03 PM Thiago Milczarek Sayão < > thiago.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I did some investigation on gtk4 and wayland. > > > > After some research I ended up with the conclusion that the best way is to > > do a separate gtk4 backend, that would support X11 and Wayland. > > > > This would be a good start: > > https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/77/files > > > > Why? > > > > Gtk4 moves the decoration to the client side, which is GREAT since knowing > > the window size with decoration was a real pain. > > > > We probably won't want to do all the decoration work, Gtk does that, but on > > GtkWindow level, not GdkSurface (which replaces GdkWindow). > > > > Thus the move to use "more Gtk" (hence "less Gdk") which is exactly what > > the PR does. It also removes Applet code > > > > This is also a good starting point: > > https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html > > > > --Thiago. > > > -- Mario Torre Manager, Software Engineering, core OpenJDK Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com> 9704 A60C B4BE A8B8 0F30 9205 5D7E 4952 3F65 7898
