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Basically, Wayland now got something similar (or something that serves similar purpose) to child windows support in X11.
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Originally posted by DebianLinuxero View PostI wonder how many of this new features would be added until the first grand desktop environment / Linux distro could release the entire thing in a stable manner.
I mean, Wayland isn't supposed to be a complete and stable protocol at v1.0?
A ready-now protocol for the desktop and applications?
News like this make me wonder how much it will take to achieve that.
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Originally posted by liam View PostAdd I understand it this doesn't seem like a corner case to me. For one thing video is an integral part of a computing experience. For another this seems like it only now allows one to handle generic buffer content without incurring a copy penalty.
I'm not saying going 1.0 without these features was wrong since I trust these devs know what they are doing, only that it SEEMS like it should've been included (well that along with complete input handling).
Wayland 1.0 signified they were confident enough in the protocol and how the protocol is written and done that the protocol and client side libraries are now API stable. Before 1.0 the protocol could break at any time for any reason if they needed to.
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Originally posted by liam View PostAdd I understand it this doesn't seem like a corner case to me. For one thing video is an integral part of a computing experience. For another this seems like it only now allows one to handle generic buffer content without incurring a copy penalty.
I'm not saying going 1.0 without these features was wrong since I trust these devs know what they are doing, only that it SEEMS like it should've been included (well that along with complete input handling).
This extension just make it even more eficient plus some additional corner cases
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Originally posted by jrch2k8 View Postso, in your planet you do things 100% perfect taking care of the 100% corner cases every time at first version?
well here on earth normally you stabilize a protocol core and release an 1.0 release that must work efficiently for most cases and then you later expand it to optimize the less likely corner cases
I'm not saying going 1.0 without these features was wrong since I trust these devs know what they are doing, only that it SEEMS like it should've been included (well that along with complete input handling).
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Originally posted by DebianLinuxero View PostI wonder how many of this new features would be added until the first grand desktop environment / Linux distro could release the entire thing in a stable manner.
I mean, Wayland isn't supposed to be a complete and stable protocol at v1.0?
A ready-now protocol for the desktop and applications?
News like this make me wonder how much it will take to achieve that.
well here on earth normally you stabilize a protocol core and release an 1.0 release that must work efficiently for most cases and then you later expand it to optimize the less likely corner cases
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Guest repliedIt's great to see so many news about Wayland at Phoronix. I hope nvidia will start to support it soon. I give them time to first Fedora/Wayland release. Otherwise I'm switching to AMD.
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I wonder
I wonder how many of this new features would be added until the first grand desktop environment / Linux distro could release the entire thing in a stable manner.
I mean, Wayland isn't supposed to be a complete and stable protocol at v1.0?
A ready-now protocol for the desktop and applications?
News like this make me wonder how much it will take to achieve that.
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