Re: Porting GNOME to Wayland

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On 18 March 2013 05:10, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> Is this likely to cause regressions or be problematic with OpenGL or Wine
> based aps/games running on the GNOME shell desktop? I understand vaguely the
> relationship between GTK+ and Wayland, but not how a raw GL based
> application or how a Wine based app would work with Wayland?

Actually for applications that do full-screen GL, expect them to work
faster in Wayland/Weston, as it can use the application surface as the
output and just flip buffers - no compositing required.

For Wine, you'd have to speak to the Wine maintainers as whether they
do a Wayland port or Xwayland is required.  Again, xwayland isn't the
performance hit you'd expect from a nested environment.

Ross