The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived

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Phoronix: The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived

Open-source developer Roman Gilg who is known for his work on KWinFT prior to its rebranding as Theseus' Ship has some more important news to share today by way of Phoronix. Here's his guest post announcing The Compositor Modules.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/the-compositor-modules-como

[romangg]

Thank you Michael for giving me the opportunity me announce The Compositor Modules here first on Phoronix, of which I'm an avid reader for years.

I'm here to answer any questions about The Compositor Modules.

[tildearrow]

Another? What happened to your plans of using wlroots?

[varikonniemi]

Seems like kde community made a powerful enemy by not embracing his kwinft work :P

[romangg]

Another? What happened to your plans of using wlroots?

The Compositor Modules uses wlroots internally. In a way you can see it a an "wlroots-batteries-included". And as such it's easier to start with, just compare wlroots' MVP TinyWl with The Compositor Module's MVP Minico.

[V1tol]

base_t base({.config = base::config(KConfig::OpenFlag::FullConfig, "kwinft-minimalrc")});

base.mod.space = std::make_unique<base_t::space_t>(*base.mod.render, *base.mod.input);

And after that people say Rust is unreadable.

[Noitatsidem]

I'm not asking for myself, but a birdie in this community would be dying to know how easy these libraries would make it to port something like icewm to wayland?

I'm only being half serious, only answer if you want to lol. All in all very interesting project, I hope you find funding!

[RejectModernity]

finally, x11 but for wayland

[patrick1946]

base_t base({.config = base::config(KConfig::OpenFlag::FullConfig, "kwinft-minimalrc")});

base.mod.space = std::make_unique<base_t::space_t>(*base.mod.render, *base.mod.input);

And after that people say Rust is unreadable.

I find the very readable. First you create a base instance and then you set base.mod.space with a unique pointer of type base_t::space_t.

I personally don't use _t for aliases but ...

What I find strange is that the initialization is happening outside of the constructor. It looks to me that

base.mod.space = std::make_unique<base_t::space_t>(*base.mod.render , *base.mod.input);

should be happening inside of the constructor.

[eszlari]

• wlroots
• libweston
• Mir
• Qt Wayland Compositor
• Louvre (new)

This list is missing smithay: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay