Re: Porting GNOME to Wayland

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com>]

On 15 March 2013 14:32, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> As far as a roadmap is concerned, I am fairly optimistic that we can
> have gnome-shell work as a Wayland compositor within 6 months. That
> will allow us to have optional Wayland support in GNOME 3.10, while
> still using X by default. Reaching this milestone by 3.10 will enable
> experimentation with Wayland, and should help us to take the next step
> for GNOME 3.12: a fully converted desktop, with no regressions. If we
> realize during 3.12 development that we won't be able to close all
> feature gaps in time for 3.12, it should be possible to keep
> gnome-shell on X for one more cycle without affecting the rest of the
> desktop too much.

Hi, just to clarify: For 3.12, you would like to drop support for
running gnome-shell or mutter on X directly and only support Wayland?
I understand that X apps will still run on top of GNOME Shell on
Wayland.

Jeremy