Re: update on Wayland and the installer

Martin Kolman <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:29:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:01 -0500, David Shea wrote:
> Summary: don't do anything.
> 
> Wayland by default is a goal for F24 Workstation 
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefault), and if
> all 
> goes right, then the Workstation live installer will be running on 
> Wayland. We don't need to do anything for that to happen. 
What about libxklavier ? That's used for keyboard handling & depends on
X AFAIK.

> We should keep 
> an eye out for anything that might be going weird with anaconda
> running 
> on Wayland (any of the places where we use Gdk functions directly 
> deserve a look), but that's it.
> 
> For non-live media, the consensus is to just leave things the way
> they 
> are for F24. X is not going away, and X is still necessary as a
> fallback 
> for certain cases, so for boot.iso/netinst just keep using X. We can 
> give this a closer look post-F24. If we do decide to switch to
> Wayland 
> post-F24, that would mean at the least swapping out metacity for 
> gnome-shell running in kiosk mode (like how gnome-initial-setup
> runs).
> 
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