Chrome 72 Poised To Have Some Wayland Performance Improvements

[Azrael5]

GPu memory buffering support! IT's amazing!

[nanonyme]

Were the contributions from Google employees, or outsiders?

Igalia, so externals. On one component mandatory for Wayland track there was submission hanging like half a year. Seems to me Chromium project has exactly same lack of maintainers issue that was just reported on Weston

[bwat47]

Were the contributions from Google employees, or outsiders?

afaik most of the chrome wayland work has been done by intel and igalia

[molecule-eye]

Can the top two browsers please put more effort into native wayland already? I'll be wearing diapers by the time it's ready.

[brrrrttttt]

I wasn't entirely convinced in Chromium code review efficiency when I was observing how Wayland commits were being integrated to their codebase. It was like leaving contributors waiting for weeks or months for feedback

Were the contributions from Google employees, or outsiders?

[royce]

Kde wayland is still very young

[Azrael5]

The "KDE stuff" are not ready yet. There are a lot of issues still.

developers are not able?

[TemplarGR]

The "KDE stuff" are not ready yet. There are a lot of issues still.

[uid313]

main question is when the linux OS will be xorg free...

Well the GNOME stuff runs without Xorg. I guess the KDE stuff does too.
Some old GTK2 and Motif stuff don't work natively on Wayland.

GIMP still uses GTK2.
Electron does not work natively on Wayland yet (so Atom, Skype, Visual Studio Code, etc).
Firefox and Chromium.

Else things are looking kinda good. You can run most stuff on Wayland today.

[nanonyme]

I wasn't entirely convinced in Chromium code review efficiency when I was observing how Wayland commits were being integrated to their codebase. It was like leaving contributors waiting for weeks or months for feedback