Originally posted by dh04000
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I don't get the "excitement" over running your entire desktop under a compatability layer.
A lot of work needs to be done across the entire stack before wayland or mir can be "natively" adopted and used as default. EGL drivers need to mature, the toolkits, Gnome/KDE/Unity need to be fully ported etc... They can't just go "oh look mir/wayland is finished, lets all use it by default now!", the rest of the stack has to support it properly too. We should start seeing gnome-shell and KDE being able to run natively on wayland by next year. Gnome plans to have partial wayland support by the next version, and full wayland support (and used as default) by 3.12, and fedora is following gnome's timeline, they plan to have an optional wayland session in the next version of fedora, and wayland by default with gnome running *natively* on it by fedora 21. Other distros will probably begin to adopt wayland after fedora does, not all distros are bleeding edge and eager to adopt such new tech right away, there will be a "trickle" effect.
We should see gnome and kde supporting wayland natively by 2014, and once they do bleeding edge distros will either offer it by default or as an optional session, and we should also see unity running natively on mir by 2014. Both of these projects are showing very similar estimated timeframes for adoption, and that makes sense because both of them need the rest of the stack to be ready before they can be adopted.
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