Wayland 1.1 Officially Released With Weston 1.1

[grok]

Does the pixman renderer means you can use Wayland without a 3D graphics card or driver? Will it work even when you find yourself with VESA graphics?, or is that a joke like llvmpipe, requiring a very powerful computer.

[i386reaper]

It's also useful in the process of porting Wayland to FreeBSD.

It would be hgihly benefical to the Wayland project and Linux this is where abandoned. BSD people reject Wayland anyway making it even more a waste of time.

[portets43]

Anyway. We need browsers for wayland.

Gnome's Epiphany Browser is very close. And it's actually becoming a decent browser. It has GTK3, WebKit2(which enables process per tab, plugin isolation for things like Flash), gtkwebkit will now GPU accelerate browser content. I'd switch to it if Reddit Enhancement Suite got ported.

[plonoma]

- The KMS back-end now supports the EGL buffer-age extension.

About time this got in a stable release.

[89c51]

There is also their new servo engine, which also has a bug for wayland support, but that seems pretty far off from being usable: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/issues/332

I thought servo was years away.


Anyway. We need browsers for wayland.

[Darxus]

Bug 627699 - Port GTK2 to GTK3 .

"Gecko's GTK/GDK X11 port uses some features of the GDK X11 backend, so porting to GTK3 is only part of work required for a GTK/Wayland port." - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699#c65

In addition to the GTK2 stuff firefox used which is related to this bug, there is some xlib stuff firefox uses which will still be a problem as a wayland client after this bug is closed.

There is another bug specifically for wayland support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134
It hasn't gotten much love.


There is also their new servo engine, which also has a bug for wayland support, but that seems pretty far off from being usable: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/issues/332

[Khudsa]

Hopefully app devs will start porting stuff to GTK3 (mozilla are you listening) and other compatible toolkits and we won't be an urgent need for xwayland. At least for most apps.

Bug 627699 - Port GTK2 to GTK3 .

[89c51]

Yes, xwayland mostly refers to modifications to x.org. I can't be sure what uid313 was referring to, but 1) there is a segfault bug that makes xwayland basically not usable, known since September ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59983 ), and 2) xwayland has not yet been committed upstream.

("Edit Post" is way too close to "Reply With Quote".)

Hopefully app devs will start porting stuff to GTK3 (mozilla are you listening) and other compatible toolkits and we won't be an urgent need for xwayland. At least for most apps.

[Darxus]

and I thought xwayland had to be merged into the x server, not wayland

Yes, xwayland mostly refers to modifications to x.org. I can't be sure what uid313 was referring to, but 1) there is a segfault bug that makes xwayland basically not usable, known since September ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59983 ), and 2) xwayland has not yet been committed upstream.

("Edit Post" is way too close to "Reply With Quote".)

[dh04000]

I'm all for what's canonical doing but please, stop this butthurt with Mir - this is a news about Wayland, not Ubuntu/Unity/Canonical...

+1

Put some Preparation H on your tushes and buck up!