Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features

The first alpha release of the Weston 14.0 reference Wayland compositor is now available with a handful of new features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Weston-14.0-Alpha-Released

[uid313]

I know it is more meant as a tech demo for other compositors to look at, and as a reference implementation or something, and I know its not meant for end-users, but has there been any UI/UX improvements, or are any planned?

[diegodamohill]

I know it is more meant as a tech demo for other compositors to look at, and as a reference implementation or something, and I know its not meant for end-users, but has there been any UI/UX improvements, or are any planned?

UI Improvements are up to the DE to implement. KDE and Gnome are not built on top of Weston, but they can use is as reference for specific implementations.

[spicfoo]

I know it is more meant as a tech demo for other compositors to look at, and as a reference implementation or something, and I know its not meant for end-users, but has there been any UI/UX improvements, or are any planned?

This is a myth. Weston is directly used in millions of devices and WSL as well.

[uid313]

This is a myth. Weston is directly used in millions of devices and WSL as well.

But I meant like when I run weston from the terminal to start Weston and then I get into this not-so-good graphical environment where i have Weston Terminal.
Most people use GNOME or KDE and not this Weston thing directly.

[duby229]

This is a myth. Weston is directly used in millions of devices and WSL as well.

The implication is obviously Linux Desktop environments. You're projecting.

[spicfoo]

The implication is obviously Linux Desktop environments. You're projecting.

He called it a tech demo. It isn't one. Projecting what?

[spicfoo]

But I meant like when I run weston from the terminal to start Weston and then I get into this not-so-good graphical environment where i have Weston Terminal.
Most people use GNOME or KDE and not this Weston thing directly.

Sure, people don't use wlroots directly either but that doesn't make it a tech demo. End users should use their preferred desktop environment or window manager.

[duby229]

He called it a tech demo. It isn't one. Projecting what?

Isn't that what every Wayland compositor is? None of them are feature complete. Plasma is probably in the best shape, but it is maybe 60% complete at maximum. Weston is like 20% feature complete. Every single one of them are tech demos.... NONE of them are ready for commercial deployment and Weston is almost the least ready... And the most fucked up part is, it's now 17 YEARS later...

[spicfoo]

Isn't that what every Wayland compositor is? None of them are feature complete

Weston is clearly feature complete enough to be used by Windows WSL and plenty of devices out there. I would agree that Linux on the desktop is largely feature incomplete regardless of the desktop environment and underlying architecture but that's a different point.