LXQt 0.11 Released, Improves The User Experience

[patstew]

I think the means that the hard dependencies of kwin will be reduced to being qt-only, rather than requiring big chunks of KDE

[Azrael5]

Wayland isn't a compsitor, it's a protocol. Weston is their default compositor, but it's really basic. Kwin would be a much better option as the KDE folks are doing the heavy lifting already.

Is weston a wrapper of wayland for xorg!?

[petete]

Is weston a wrapper of wayland for xorg!?

Weston is the wayland reference compositor. It has nothing to do with xorg, besides that in can run in an X window for testing.

[starshipeleven]

Is weston a wrapper of wayland for xorg!?

Wayland is a protocol, a language for two programs to communicate.
Weston is the example program that talks this protocol, so people can develop software that is similar to it.

[cj.wijtmans]

I think the means that the hard dependencies of kwin will be reduced to being qt-only, rather than requiring big chunks of KDE

KDE still doesnt support NVIDIA. so its not even complete.

[bison]

Wayland is a protocol, a language for two programs to communicate.
Weston is the example program that talks this protocol, so people can develop software that is similar to it.

That's my understanding as well, but, then... what is this?

https://github.com/nobled/wayland/tree/master/src

If Wayland is is a protocol, why is there source code and not just documentation? It seems like it's a protocol + extra stuff.

[jwh7]

That's my understanding as well, but, then... what is this?

https://github.com/nobled/wayland/tree/master/src

If Wayland is is a protocol, why is there source code and not just documentation? It seems like it's a protocol + extra stuff.

There is a good summary one level up from there, per the 'README': https://raw.githubusercontent.com/no.../master/README

[smitty3268]

What does that mean? Surely it can not mean that kwin will not be able to handle GTK applications.

I think it was the reverse - that the Plasma desktop shell would start requiring kwin and fail to run on other compositors. I don't think kwin itself would fail to run for other desktops, though, so no effect for lxqt.

[bison]

There is a good summary one level up from there, per the 'README': https://raw.githubusercontent.com/no.../master/README

Thanks for the link.