On Thursday 29 September 2011 13:33:28 ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> A wayland server has nothing to do with the wayland plugin to lighthouse, 
> aside from the fact that they speak the same protocol and may be using the 
> same low-level library.

The "low-level library" in question is Qt :p

Samuel used this example to show that being able to use two different platform 
plugins on the same system, without having to have two separate installations 
of 
Qt, is not just a cool geeky feature: it's absolutely essential for the Wayland 
use case.

Once you have chosen to use Qt on Wayland, the only sane choice is to use Qt to 
implement your compositor too. I mean, we use Qt because we don't actually 
enjoy 
low-level C programming. The Wayland compositor will then be run with a command 
line like

qwindow-compositor -platform eglfs -plugin linuxinputmouse

while the client will do something like

hellowindow -platform wayland

Exactly the same Qt libraries involved, but two different lighthouse back-ends.

- Paul 
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