XDG-Shell Protocol Added For Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XDG-Shell Protocol Added For Wayland

Kristian H?gsberg committed on Tuesday the initial XDG-Shell protocol support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzNDE

[lkundrak]

s/Wayland/Weston/

xdg_shell was added to Weston, not Wayland.

[mark45]

They apparently realized that the Wayland protocol being developed mostly by Intel with non-PC solutions in mind (Tizen, cars etc) stayed underdeveloped as a desktop solution, this became clear when Gnome and KDE started implementing Wayland for serious.

[TheBlackCat]

They apparently realized that the Wayland protocol being developed mostly by Intel with non-PC solutions in mind (Tizen, cars etc) stayed underdeveloped as a desktop solution, this became clear when Gnome and KDE started implementing Wayland for serious.

And here comes the trolling.

[mark45]

And here comes the trolling.

XDG shell is there for a good reason, like it or not, playing the "troll" card doesn't change the issue.

[giucam]

They apparently realized that the Wayland protocol being developed mostly by Intel with non-PC solutions in mind (Tizen, cars etc) stayed underdeveloped as a desktop solution, this became clear when Gnome and KDE started implementing Wayland for serious.

It was always known. The wl_shell protocol was never developed into a full desktop shell protocol because the DE developers were needed to do a useful work.

[mrugiero]

It was always known. The wl_shell protocol was never developed into a full desktop shell protocol because the DE developers were needed to do a useful work.

That's not the only reason. Desktop paradigms change, and including the infrastructure for a particular one to the core protocol leads to the kind of bloat X11 has. Separation of concerns helps you not having to ditch all of your previous work when a given paradigm becomes obsolete. If in a few years the concept of maximizing loses sense, having this in a core protocol becomes bloat.