Wine Wayland Driver Takes Another Step Closer To Mainline

[Vistaus]

you have forgotten Java

Java is irrelevant.

(And I wish I could say the same about that Electron crap, but unfortunately I can't.)

[user1]

Java is irrelevant.

(And I wish I could say the same about that Electron crap, but unfortunately I can't.)

Yeah, apart from Minecraft, I haven't heard about other even remotely popular Java apps. Btw, some people actually managed to run Minecraft natively on Wayland.

[Britoid]

you have forgotten Java

Java it depends on the UI Toolkit you use.

SWT already supports Wayland, and as a result Eclipse, Dbeaver etc will run natively on Wayland, but only because it uses the native toolkit to set up windows, being GTK on Linux.

[furtadopires]

I hope once all the merges are done, this also makes steam/gamescope to go full wayland. I'm really curious about games running through proton will perform in this scenario.

[boxie]

Java is irrelevant.

(And I wish I could say the same about that Electron crap, but unfortunately I can't.)

I am sure Jetbrains will have something to say about that.

[bple2137]

Very nice! Can't wait to see the rest of this get mainlined.

More like can't wait to see any of this getting mainlined. it's all open for discussion still.

[Sethox]

Has to be said:

This will be the year of Linux.

Then next year is Steam Wayland, another repeat of the quote, then somewhere down the line where Electron apps...

[browseria]

I am sure Jetbrains will have something to say about that.

JetBrains has already said quite a lot about it: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue...ayland-support. They are working with the Java Client team at Oracle and the Wayland developers at RedHat to support the Wayland desktop. They hope to have a "preview" working by the end of 2023.

Java is also working on it: https://github.com/openjdk/wakefield. They hope to have a "preview" working by the next LTS, Java 21, September 2023.

• https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/wakefield
• https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/wak...Work+breakdown

[StarterX4]

Steam itself as well.

Steam even uses GTK2.
Not to mention Valve's games compiled with "ancient" SDL2 versions, without Wayland support.

[darkbasic]

Great! Wine and Electron are probably the only 2 platforms left for pure Wayland experience, and they're slowly getting there.

Electron has (mostly) been dealt with, the real problem is Java.