Hi all, I am glad to announce that Taiwins 0.3 is released today. It has been a year since Taiwins 0.1 release, we have migrated from libweston and wlroots. This version, Taiwins has implemented enough compositor features. The biggest change in the version is the libtaiwins library is finally ready for daily use.
- Multiple backends for hardware abstraction(DRM, X11, wayland). - Rendering context with exposed interface for custom rendering. - Abstracting xdg-surface , wl_shell_surface and xwayland_surface for unified desktop interface. - session handling. - All essential and many useful wayland protocols. - Xwayland support. With those features supported, libtaiwins now becomes a real alternative outsides wlroots and libweston. Besides, I’d like to point out some design goals were kept in mind when crafting taiwins since day 1. - split GBM buffer management from DRM mode setting, make it possible to implement other buffer management backends. - builtin support for multi-GPUs from day one. - udev events monitoring for runtime GPU events handling. - separate rendering logic from backends, make it possible to work with different renderers. It is a magical thing to be able to use your own created compositor, it is certainly not easy, but I think right now the most difficult time is behind us. The next version of taiwins will focus on the rendering. Features hopefully will land includes: - xdg-decoration support - plane assignment in drm backend - video recording feature - taiwins shell functionalities For people who are interested, https://taiwins.org hosts many useful documentations and a tutorial on how to use libtaiwins. https://github.com/taiwins/taiwins/releases/download/v0.3/taiwins-0.3.tar.gz Cheers, Xichen _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
