Re: Porting GNOME to Wayland

[Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:50:49AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm not sure that we should drop it too eagerly...there's bound to be
> some problems with Wayland in some situations, so will be nice to have
> X to fall back on for a while. But we should avoid X becoming the new
> fallback mode, where we are permanently stuck with supporting two code
> paths for everything.

More of a Wayland FAQ, but on which OSes does Wayland run?

Cheers,

Patrick