Wayland's Weston Adds Support For The Minimize Button

[Skrapion]

besides, is there actual support at the protocol level? Last i checked enlightenment couldnt implement it for e18 since it was missing still, and it wasnt long ago...

Yes, it's been in the protocol since last March, nearly a year ago.

[silix]

Nobody cares. Weston is just the reference implementation. It's not for production environments.

besides, is there actual support at the protocol level? Last i checked enlightenment couldnt implement it for e18 since it was missing still, and it wasnt long ago...

[Skrapion]

It will become OSX then?

That joke would have made more sense if you said iOS (or Metro, or Android) where closing apps is treated as a feature for advanced users only. OS X still has close buttons right there in the corner.

[andyprough]

Also after maybe 5 versions Gnome will remove the minimize buttons and exit buttons completely because you'll have transparent windows and people never close apps in the future. There will be so much RAM we don't know how to waste it all.

It will become OSX then?

[caligula]

Nobody cares. Weston is just the reference implementation. It's not for production environments.

Also after maybe 5 versions Gnome will remove the minimize buttons and exit buttons completely because you'll have transparent windows and people never close apps in the future. There will be so much RAM we don't know how to waste it all.

[Awesomeness]

It took 5 point releases to have working minimize buttons.

Nobody cares. Weston is just the reference implementation. It's not for production environments.

[jern]

This is bound to cause heated debate within the Gnome development community.

Especially since the code came from a GNOME developer.

[dee.]

Maybe now we'll finally see an end to the shitty trolls going "hur hur wayland has no minimize"...

[bison]

Phoronix: Wayland's Weston Adds Support For The Minimize Button

Wayland clients running on the Weston compositor now have support for the minimize button...

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

This is bound to cause heated debate within the Gnome development community.

[carewolf]

weston progress*

Do not mix up these two!

Wayland supported it long time ago, they just don't bother about how to implement in the compositor (weston) before.

Anyway, weston serves as example for others wanting to implement an actual wayland compositor.

Anyway, I'm happy too to see a progress there, can't wait for DEs to be compatible!

Well, often Wayland development feels the same way. Always moving forward but always inexplicably slow.