X.Org 7.7 Katamari Finally Surfaces

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org 7.7 Katamari Finally Surfaces

It's been a year and a half since the release of X.Org 7.6, but the X.Org 7.7 katamari was finally tagged today...

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

[Jedibeeftrix]

"The next full release will be X11R7.8 and may happen in 2013."

By that time will anyone care?

I believe kde 5.0. Will be out by then, probably sporting decent wayland support, and no doubt gnome 3.6 sporting similar functionality......

[uid313]

Great!

I hope the upcoming X.org 7.8 katamari will add support for xwayland and running X without root privileges.

[Linuxxx]

What about Wine?

...including allowing clients to track raw events from input devices...

Does this mean RAW input handling in Wine can finally be properly implemented?

Thanks

[alanc]

By that time will anyone care?

It's unlikely that by 2013 every single X app will be ported to Wayland, so many Linux users will still want the libraries & Xwayland, and all the users of other kernels (BSD, MacOS, Solaris, Cygwin, etc.) will still be wanting something to run on their non-Wayland-supported systems.

[Rallos Zek]

"The next full release will be X11R7.8 and may happen in 2013."

By that time will anyone care?

I believe kde 5.0. Will be out by then, probably sporting decent wayland support, and no doubt gnome 3.6 sporting similar functionality......

Wayland's current status: it continues to be the vaporware windowing system that is the darling of people who have no idea about what X really does or what its problems might be.

[TheBlackCat]

that is the darling of people who have no idea about what X really does or what its problems might be.

Exactly, no way all the X11 developers working on wayland have any clue about X11.