Re: A little experiment: GNOME on wayland-only?

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 03:18, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 4:23 pm, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>
> wrote:
> > If you still want to preserve X11 support, these modules do need to
> > keep linking to X11 components:
>
> So our regular build has to continue to depend on X11 indefinitely,
> because we want to build flatpaks that work under X11. And distros
> certainly do as well, because they need to support X applications
> indefinitely. But I don't think our VM images necessarily need to
> support X applications. I suppose Javier's experiment is to see if we
> can get VM images working nicely without any X stuff at all. In this
> scenario, preserving X11 support is not needed.

That was, indeed, my intention; a GNOME VM only with wayland (or as
little as X as possible)

> > Beyond that, AFAICT if other regular GNOME session services/apps
> > indirectly rely on X11 at build/runtime, it's an oversight.

Well, as you can see at [1] there is a lot of oversights :) (if you
see the branch as well I have
to disable some apps, like gedit, that hard depend on X11 at the moment)

> Well there is libgnomekbd. That seems like the main issue currently, as
> it's required for core desktop functionality but still doesn't work
> under Wayland. (It only works currently because it sets
> GDK_BACKEND=x11.)

I think more important is gcr, as a lot stuff depend on it

Thanks everyone for the help reviewing patches; still quite a lot of work to do!

Cheers,
Javier

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/issues/226