Oh, this looks like it is takes some inspiration from libliftoff that was discussed during XDC just a few days ago. It also looks like it also tries to integrate some of the wlroots backend bits.
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"LIBOUTPUT" Proposed As New Library For Helping To Bring Up New Compositors & More
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Originally posted by miabrahams View Post
I do not understand these libraries well enough to know exactly how this relates. I think libweston, wlroots and this are somehow similar, while Mir is a compositor that could (theoretically) be rebased to rely on one or more of these libraries. But what roles do these things fill precisely, and what is the supposed value-added of liboutput?
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostWe already have libweston, wlroots and Mir.
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Originally posted by babali View Post
That is more or less XWayland...
And whats great about this "innovative design" is that when Wayland has become deprecated, we can have a simple XNextbestthing implemented to replace XWayland and all of the great libX11 software can still function
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Honestly, everyone is just waiting for a libX11 API layer to be built on top of Wayland. Then people can stop faffing around and get back to some real work XD.
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"LIBOUTPUT" Proposed As New Library For Helping To Bring Up New Compositors & More
Phoronix: "LIBOUTPUT" Proposed As New Library For Helping To Bring Up New Compositors & More
Coming out of informal discussions from this week's X.Org Developers Conference in Montreal, a "liboutput" library has been proposed as a theoretical new library for helping to bring up Wayland compositors, X11 window managers, and anything else wanting to interface with DRM/KMS kernel interfaces...
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