https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91799
Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Pekka Paalanen from comment #2) > I am scared to even think of what spawning a thread in libwayland-server > would cause. > > An alternate proposal to this problem would be to deprecate the whole server > event loop implementation in Wayland. It obviously has never worked on BSDs, > so BSDs could start by compiling a version of libwayland-server which does > not have that API (or plug it with stubs). > > But this is major design change. We would need to plan how to gracefully > deprecate the event loop API everywhere, and port all users to third party > event loop libraries. Therefore it requires a significant buy-in from the > community. > > I recall Jasper saying that Gnome's compositor does not use the event loop > stuff of libwayland-server, because they already have their own. I wonder > what others do. In mutter we do use the event loop. We just add the fd to our event loop and dispatch on input on that fd, more or less. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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