Re: Porting GNOME to Wayland

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi Jeremy;

yes, unported applications still using X11 should be able to run
unmodified under an hybrid X/Wayland compositor. what Matthias was
detailing for the 3.12 cut-off cycle is running GNOME Shell as a
Wayland compositor by default, instead of an X11 one.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.


On 15 March 2013 20:44, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
> 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
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