Wayfire 0.5 Wayland Compositor Brings Latency Optimizations, More Protocols

[curfew]

curfew Did you read https://wayfire.org/2019/01/13/Intro...o-Wayfire.html? It does explain the authors reasons for writing yet another compositor.

The "answer" provided there only changes the question, not the doubt. There will not be lots of demand for a "common base to build a lightweight, but fully-functional wayland-based DE with minimal effort" when all the major environments are already ported to Wayland for the most part (Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment, Sway, Weston), and those that still are waiting for it probably cannot benefit off this project anyway. (XFCE, Mate, redundant tiling WMs)

Now I am not really sure why Wayfire could not just be an extension to Weston codebase in order to provide the pluggability and more advanced desktop effects...

[JonathanM]

Now I am not really sure why Wayfire could not just be an extension to Weston codebase in order to provide the pluggability and more advanced desktop effects...

Because libweston was a poor match: https://wayfire.org/2019/02/24/X11-W...n-Wlroots.html

[Azrael5]

why wayland? this not work with nvidia

Because it works with AMD and Intel as well.