That's a very nice overview of the project, though I'd point out that there's a bit more work to do on GTK+ support: client side decorations (as you mention), selections, dnd and popup placement are the big ones. It would also be nice to included a summary of what's mssing in the protocol and the state of mutter-on-wayland.
thanks, Kristian On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is far from official. If you have better information, please provide > it. HTML version: http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/state/ > > > Drivers > > The reference compositor works with Intel, Radeon, and Nvidia > (Nouveau) open source drivers. [1]Nouveau + OpenGL clients hangs. > > XWayland > > XWayland, the ability to run X clients within Wayland, is > [2]currently broken, in the middle of transitioning to using a > special X window manager. [3]Tiago did some work on it, which has > not been committed. Other than that, DDX support for Intel video > exists, [4]a software implementation exists but may need updating, > and someone has done some work on Radeon but not released source. > Nvidia / Nouveau support hasn't been touched. > > Toolkits > > Wayland usability is mostly down to applications migrating to GTK3 > and QT5. > > GTK+ 3.4.1 and QT5 appear to have complete Wayland support except > for client side decorations. EFL and Clutter appear to have > complete support. > > So any application should work with Wayland as long as it uses one > of these four toolkits, and it doesn't call any Xlib functions. > Unfortunately a number of GTK+ applications do call Xlib, through > gdk_x11_* functions, and they need to be wrapped in [5]build-time > and run-time backend checks. > > And while [6]GTK3 was released over a year ago, [7]QT5 only had > its first alpha release last week. While many GTK+ applications > haven't made the conversion yet, presumably Qt applications, for > the most part, haven't started. > > GTK+ 3.4.0 has a [8]bug causing it to break when the X11 and > Wayland backends are both built. The workaround has been applied > in master and will be included in the [9]3.4.1 release on April > 18th. > > The GTK graphics glitch was a [10]cairo-gl bug, easy enough to > avoid. > > Rob Bradford has a [11]branch of [12]gtk that doesn't require > cairo-gl, which will be merged with master once 3.4 is branched > off. I've tested it. This should allow Ubuntu to [13]enable the > Wayland backend in GTK in the October 2012 (12.10) release. > > Browsers > > The only web browser I've tested that works is qtwebkit, which is > included with the QT5 source. [14]Weston occasionally crashes when > running it. It seems likely that the [15]snowshoe browser works, > via QT5. > > The [16]webkitgtk browser doesn't work. As expected, the > [17]midori browser based on webkitgtk doesn't work. > > [18]Firefox has a long way to go. > > [19]Chrome / chromium might work, but I haven't seen how. > > Terminals > > weston-terminal is actually pretty decent. > > vte, based on gtk, works fine. > > [20]gnome-terminal seems likely to work, I just haven't tried > quite the right incantation yet. > > Surprisingly, there don't seem to be any terminal applications > written in Qt or EFL. I haven't tried [21]clutterm, which uses > Clutter, mostly because it says "This is a work in progress and > it's far from ready for every day use." > > Other Applications > > Of the 22 [22]gtk applications I tried from the default Ubuntu > Precise menu (html5 video), 9 worked, and 13 didn't due to using > Xlib calls. 41% worked as packaged by Ubuntu (after I rebuilt GTK > with --enable-wayland-backend). > > Open Bugs > > * [23]GTK+: Wayland and x11 backends simultaneously enabled is > broken. > * [24]Ubuntu: Enable wayland backend in GTK+ > * [25]Totem: Add wayland support (remove Xlib calls). > * [26]WebKitGTK+: Enable wayland support (remove Xlib calls). > > The Nvidia proprietary + cairo-gl mess: > * [27]Cairo: Dynamically load libGL in cairo-gl > * [28]GTK+: Remove cairo-gl dependency from wayland backend, > fall back to software as weston does. > * [29]Debian packaging: Add support for versioned provides. This > is 15 years old. > > > References > > 1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48074 > 2. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46743 > 3. > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-April/002861.html > 4. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2011-June/001163.html > 5. http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.3/ch24s02.html#id1502079 > 6. > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2011-February/msg00020.html > 7. http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/04/03/qt-5-alpha/ > 8. http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.3/ch24s02.html#id1502079 > 9. https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree > 10. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48221 > 11. https://github.com/rbradford/gtk/tree/wip/wayland-render-changes > 12. > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-April/002876.html > 13. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/954352/ > 14. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47728 > 15. http://snowshoe.qtlabs.org.br/ > 16. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81456 > 17. https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/975355 > 18. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134 > 19. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTc4NA > 20. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673323 > 21. https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/clutterm > 22. > http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/demos/2012-04-07-wayland-several-gtk-apps.html > 23. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672358 > 24. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/954352 > 25. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672735 > 26. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81456 > 27. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47480 > 28. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672361 > 29. > http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/state/bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=7330 > 30. http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/state/2012-03-24.html > 31. http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/ > > -- > "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." > - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution Leader > http://www.ChaosReigns.com > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
