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wayland really is right around the corner. LXQt will be compatible with it, I think Englightenment is compatible with it, GNOME 3 is compatible, KDE is semi-compatible, and many "3rd party" applications are gaining compatibility (primary anything based on GTK3 or Qt5). The problem is Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and debian, since they are the most popular. Ubuntu has a strong focus on Mir, debian takes too long to decide to migrate to something, and Mint (to my knowledge) is still dependent upon GTK2 (and xwayland has a dent in performance). This means a massive chunk of the linux userbase is not going to be actively supporting and using wayland any time soon.
If wayland is to seriously gain some attention, it will be up to Valve to fix that.Last edited by schmidtbag; 08 December 2014, 03:48 PM.
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Originally posted by daniels View PostUm, apart from how Collabora sponsors the vast majority of work from Pekka, myself, Jonny, Emilio, Fred, Tomeu, etc; Red Hat similarly for Marek, Peter, Hans, and formerly Jasper (now Endless); Jolla for Giulio; Samsung for Derek and Bryce; Intel for Jason and Kristian; etc etc, ad nauseum.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postwayland really is right around the corner. LXQt will be compatible with it, I think Englightenment is compatible with it, GNOME 3 is compatible, KDE is semi-compatible, and many "3rd party" applications are gaining compatibility (primary anything based on GTK3 or Qt5). The problem is Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and debian, since they are the most popular. Ubuntu has a strong focus on Mir, debian takes too long to decide to migrate to something, and Mint (to my knowledge) is still dependent upon GTK2 (and xwayland has a dent in performance). This means a massive chunk of the linux userbase is not going to be actively supporting and using wayland any time soon.
If wayland is to seriously gain some attention, it will be up to Valve to fix that.
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Originally posted by gufide View PostPatience is the key guys. We had millions LOC to make compatible with wayland. We had to remove all the hacks we made. We had to rethink how everything work. We worked hard 6 years to make it so. Why? Because we know that will wayland, linux desktop will shine, and we will stop borthering ourself with low performances, hacks, bugs of all sort. We will finally work to make our DE and apps better with a better code and performance and without the X bottleneck. Company like Microsoft can't affort to do something like this. The linux desktop can. Wait another year of developpement maximum and we will get full GNOME and Plasma on Walyand. We are close. Patience is the key guys.
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Originally posted by mark45 View PostIn what moron's head "6+ years" == "instant gratification"?
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