Chromium Browser Is Running Great On Wayland

[Sonadow]

According to Intel, the Wayland-capable version of Chromium is still a downstream project with heavy patching needed :https://github.com/01org/ozone-wayland#gardening

Any news or information on when these patches will be committed upstream as part of the vanilla Chromium sources?

[mrugiero]

I've noticed that too. In ubuntu (X.org) it is using window borders, but under wayland they're using client side decorations with no borders, which looks much better in my opinion.

I don't know if it's better or worse, but what intrigues me is if it's intentional or not. If it's not, it should be filed as a bug.

[Daktyl198]

I wonder if the GTK3 version of Firefox runs on Wayland.

Not right away, since I think it makes quite a bit of X.org calls, but once the GTK3 port is done (and the largest problem was recently resolved, so it shouldn't be long now) then they can get on removing those calls or abstracting them.

[blackout23]

I wonder if the GTK3 version of Firefox runs on Wayland.

[rudregues]

I've tried to build chromium for wayland with their instructions, but ... I stopped after it had downloaded 9GB of dependencies, and it wasn't stopping.
I don't want to replace many of these libraries which are already on my system.

Which chromium version I must compile to add ozone support?

Obs.: the strange 9GB dependencies can be due to develpment options (like the test compile flag). Just supposing.

[mannerov]

I've tried to build chromium for wayland with their instructions, but ... I stopped after it had downloaded 9GB of dependencies, and it wasn't stopping.
I don't want to replace many of these libraries which are already on my system.

uid313: you're obviously trolling, but let's give an answer:
What's your measure of performance?
If it's games fps, then performance should be exactly the same than X Dri3+Present in GPU limited scenarios.

But we can hope having better cpu comsumption / idle time with wayland, and then better battery life.
And when everything is designed and implemented for several DE, we'll be able to verify that.

We can also hope better user experience with some things beeing better designed, but since everything isn't yet designed, we have yet to see.

[kaprikawn]

But Wayland have less performance than X.org Server, right?

X.org has been around since the late 70s, it's fairly mature software. Wayland is up-and-coming. Stop trolling idiot.

[uid313]

Performance

But Wayland have less performance than X.org Server, right?

[dalingrin]

Why would they need Wayland for per-pixel scrolling? Firefox seems to be doing it on xorg.

AFAIK firefox does not do per-pixel scrolling in Linux. Firefox only gets scroll wheel events which by default scrolls 3 lines per increment. Firefox does use an animation to smooth the transition of 3 lines but its not nearly as nice as per-pixel scrolling. Wayland is not required for per-pixel scrolling but the older toolkits like GTK2 do not support it. I'm hoping the clean slate of Wayland + Aura would get per pixel scrolling in Chromium.

[sarmad]

I hope this will finally allow for per pixel scrolling like Windows and Mac.

Why would they need Wayland for per-pixel scrolling? Firefox seems to be doing it on xorg.