Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That

[DanL]

Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation

Could have just stopped there.

[tildearrow]

https://xkcd.com/927/

How to prevent 927:
1. Create a new universal standard to end all standards
2. Make sure your standard resembles the most popular current standard
3. Use embrace, extend and extinguish
4. ???
5. Situation: There are 15 competing standards, of which the new one is the most used and the rest have 1% usage share.

[ssokolow]

TL;DR: This is a call to replicate the success of getting everyone together to make a successor for GNOME's use of CORBA and KDE's DCOP and then calling it D-Bus.

[microcode]

EDID parsing is not that complicated, and the styles of many of these projects are different (though some of them are similar enough). I feel like it's not really a big deal to have EDID parser fragmentation.

Good to get some centralization where it makes sense though.

[dos1]

Alexmitter i think its about wayland. of course the purpose of this is to be used by compositors but it will be in wayland. i wonder what will be next

This is exactly as "about wayland" as libinput is - so "not really; well, kinda, but only indirectly".

[mos87]

What, an architectural oversight leading to implementations having to do the same thing every client has to each on their own??
Totally unexpected tbh from the redhat/gnome/PROGRESSIVEPEOPLEOFTHEFUTURE stack =P

[loganj]

Alexmitter i think its about wayland. of course the purpose of this is to be used by compositors but it will be in wayland. i wonder what will be next

[Alexmitter]

isn't this outside of the scope of wayland?

This is not about Wayland but Wayland Display Servers like Mutter, Kwin, wlroots, mir and so on all having to potentially do their own EDID parser to interpret what the display is capable of. Wayland is the interface specification between applications and those servers, it does not say anything on how those servers have to work.

[ix900]

isn't this outside of the scope of wayland?

From what I understand its more for Weston and others along that line than it is for Wayland and it looks to be a separate project, not put into Wayland code.

Its Wayland focused as they have a fragmentation problem happening and are tired of it.

[Azrael5]

A well done standard improve compatibility simplifying communication and interpretation of the information.