There's Finally An Experimental Driver For Native Wayland Support Within Wine

[phoronix]

Phoronix: There's Finally An Experimental Driver For Native Wayland Support Within Wine

Alexandros Frantzis has announced the creation of a Wayland driver for Wine. This driver allows Windows GDI/OpenGL applications to run on Wayland compositors without any use of X11/XWayland...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-Wine-Driver

[dragon321]

Finally. Really great achievement that should improve adoption of Wayland. Yeah, we have wine-wayland but without support for desktop applications (no GDI and OpenGL, only Vulkan full screen games). I'm going to check this in free time.

[Weasel]

Waste of time.

[Alexmitter]

Great work, this can squeeze out a bit more (especially to screen and imput latency) on Games.

[ALRBP]

Is the Windows 98 look a consequence of this native Wayland support ? In that case it must be fixed or users will have nightmares !

[Alexmitter]

Is the Windows 98 look a consequence of this native Wayland support ? In that case it must be fixed or users will have nightmares !

By default, wine uses a copy of the classic windows theme. You can use a different windows theme or tell it to use your GTK3 theme colors.

[tildearrow]

By default, wine uses a copy of the classic windows theme. You can use a different windows theme or tell it to use your GTK3 theme colors.

But it still doesn't look like Vista/7 at least.

[Alexmitter]

I just build that wine branch from collabora and what should I say, it works just fine for what I tried so far. Great work.

[Alexmitter]

But it still doesn't look like Vista/7 at least.

its called the classic theme for a reason.

[Trevelyan]

Couldn’t Wine just use SDL2 for video/graphics, audio & input and thus ran natively where SDL2 runs natively?