Wayland 1.8 Alpha Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland 1.8 Alpha Released

While there was a small delay, Wayland/Weston 1.8 Alpha is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-1.8-Alpha-Out

[89c51]

Slightly off topic but how come any of the big linux companies hasn't expressed interest in bringing the remote (proof of concept) protocol to a usable level.

[RahulSundaram]

Is wayland 1.8 scheduled for Fedora 22 as a backport?

Wayland 1.8 is just an alpha at this point and Fedora 22 has the final test candidate releases out. So I unlikely anything is getting backported before the release. Post release updates are decided a while after the new releases get into the development branch.

[RahulSundaram]

Slightly off topic but how come any of the big linux companies hasn't expressed interest in bringing the remote (proof of concept) protocol to a usable level.

There is just several core things that need to be worked on first including input and accessibility. See Fedora 23 tasklist for some of the items listed

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Tasklist

[blackout23]

There is just several core things that need to be worked on first including input and accessibility. See Fedora 23 tasklist for some of the items listed

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Tasklist

Happy to see a lot of Wayland pointer locking tasks on the tasklist for Fedora 23.