Could this task be a new Gnome Goal? Maybe we could create a Goal with all the info needed to port applications to Wayland, highlighting in the wiki the already ported apps.
2013/4/4 Olav Vitters <[email protected]> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:24:22PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Think we should create an announcement for Wayland. > > > > > > Focus on what we plan to deliver and when. What we suggest > distributions > > > to do. Give a hint that we really like systemd, but still optional, > etc. > > > At same time, small item about non-Linux impact. > > > > > > Obviously it would've been better if this email contained a proposal, > > > but oh well, it does not :P > > > > > > Any takers? > > > > Sure, makes sense. Shall we wait until after 3.8.0 is out ? > > > -- incomplete email, will finish later -- > > Subject: GNOME and Wayland > > As discussed within the community and decided by the release team, we're > going to make GNOME work on Wayland. We will ensure everything we > provide as well as everything we rely on will work under Wayland. This > means things like GTK+, GNOME as well as freedesktop.org. > > Time frame: > 3.10 (around Sep 2013): trial version > 3.12 (around Apr 2014): fully featured version > > Current status of the 69 GNOME applications: > 40 working > 13 crashes at one point > 6 issues due to clutter > 5 small issues > 5 still need to be checked > > Steps that will be taken by us: > - GNOME shell needs to be turned into a Wayland compositor > See https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/GnomeShell > - Finish the Wayland support in GTK+ as well as Clutter > This might result in API changes and deprecations. See > https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/GTK%2B > - X dependencies in the desktop infrastructure need to be replaced by > Wayland equivalents > See https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Gaps > - Applications can be ported one-by-one. Porting means finding and > removing hidden X dependencies > See https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Applications > - XXX wtf does this mean - We don't think that a so-called 'system > compositor' is a priority, most of what it would give us can be added > in other ways, and making system and session compositors work together > nicely is tricky > > Impact on X applications: > Wayland will be able to run X application, possibly even with a better > performance than X itself. > > Impact on distributions: > GDM will be able to launch Wayland as well as X sessions. By 3.12, our > stack > XXX - expand > > Things currently missing in Wayland: > - XSettings > - Idle time > - Color management > - Input methods / IBus needs to be ported > - Various accessibility related support + changes > - Pointer barriers > - Wacom tablets > - Joypad > - possibly more > > > References: > 1. https://live.gnome.org/Wayland > 2. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2013-March/msg00087.html > 3. > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-March/msg00059.html > 4. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=wayland > > -- > Regards, > Olav > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team > Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions. >
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