Dropping Wayland could get REALLY ugly for non-Mir DE's in future.
GNOME at some point will probably end up usintg Wayland by default, possibly the shell will at some point only run on Wayland. Cinnamon in turn might at some later point be reforked from that version of GNOME 3. There is talk of porting MATE to Wayland as well, mostly by porting it to GTK3.
Therefore, there will be two DE's now supported by Ubuntu, possibly three, plus both of Mint's primary DE's that may at some point require or benefit from Wayland. If Ubuntu removes it from repo, then I would expect a PPA to pop up offering it. For Wayland to only be in PPA, however, would get ugly if any Ubuntu flavors depend on it. Mint would simpl;y put in in their own repo, thought that might force Mint to use their own build of Mesa as well.
I don't see any likelihood that GNOME, MATE, or Cinnamon will ever use Mir. KDE can ran Wayland now, so can upstream GNOME. How long until dropping Wayland would mean dropping Kubuntu and dropping gnome-shell and Ubuntu Gnome?
Originally posted by phoronix
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Therefore, there will be two DE's now supported by Ubuntu, possibly three, plus both of Mint's primary DE's that may at some point require or benefit from Wayland. If Ubuntu removes it from repo, then I would expect a PPA to pop up offering it. For Wayland to only be in PPA, however, would get ugly if any Ubuntu flavors depend on it. Mint would simpl;y put in in their own repo, thought that might force Mint to use their own build of Mesa as well.
I don't see any likelihood that GNOME, MATE, or Cinnamon will ever use Mir. KDE can ran Wayland now, so can upstream GNOME. How long until dropping Wayland would mean dropping Kubuntu and dropping gnome-shell and Ubuntu Gnome?
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