On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:57:21AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > But you mean work only on Wayland, or on Wayland as well as xorg? > > That question has different answers, depending on what you mean. > > Support for X applications is not going away.
I know that Wayland supports X applications. > The Intel team is fairly confident that they can keep X and Wayland > working in parallel in mutter, so we should be able to have a 3.10 > gnome-shell release that lets you try Wayland, but still defaults to > using X underneath. I'm not so sure we want to maintain two code paths > indefinitely, though That is what I am after. Do you know how long we should support this minimally for distributions? e.g. for conservative distribution POV (Debian FTW!) 3.10: Wayland = 'alpha' 3.12: Wayland = 'beta' 3.14: Wayland = 'release' 3.16: xorg = alpha :P I prefer being honest up front towards distributions. > For scattered other X dependencies in the stack, I think it will be > hard to keep parallel code paths working, so certain things may stop > working under X when they get ported to Wayland. Would be good to have some sort of advice for distributions who want to support multiple DE at the same time. With that I mean that they might have KDM+GDM on the same DVD. IMO ok to push technology forward, though some people really need those binary drivers. We never got much GNOME-specific support for making binary drivers work nicely with GNOME IMO. > The wiki has some more details. Looks pretty great already. Let's push asap :) -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
