Re: Next relase and roadmap

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:33:38 +0200
Alexandru Lazar <[email protected]> wrote:

(I'm somehow missed your post)

> > I'm wondering if there are plans regarding rewriting wmaker to be an
> > compositor on wayland? I know, that wayland is not widely used yet,
> > but eventually it will replace X stack. Probably ;). Thoughts?
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of writing a compositor with a NeXT-like
> interface as a way to get myself acquainted with Wayland.
> 
> Sadly, I haven't taken it past the "toying with" stage because, as far
> as I can tell, Wayland-related documentation is somewhere between
> outdated, abysmal and absent.

Are you referring to this[1]? If so, than indeed, five year old docs
for constantly changing project seems not good at all.

> That being said, unless they manage to mess up Wayland really, really
> bad, I don't think X11 will be very relevant 4-6 years from now. Wayland
> has a lot of big commercial Linux players behind it -- and those (by
> which I mean that, by which I really mean Canonical) who aren't behind
> it aren't behind X11 anyway.

Seems like Wayland is not-there-yet[2], although it is used by
default as display server for Fedora with different effect (it
doesn't play well for my co-workers laptop). That's pity. OTOH it
seems, that commercial Linux players (as you have it phrased) have
strong motivation for making X obsolete, hence my question. Well,
time will tell, how long X will last.

[1] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#Wayland_issues

-- 
Roman Dobosz


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