X.Org 7.8 Will Not Come For A While

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org 7.8 Will Not Come For A While

X.Org 7.7 was released last week and following the katamari's debut there was a brief discussion about plans for X.Org 7.8. While it was quick to be discussed, don't expect X.Org 7.8 to come until late 2013...

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

[89c51]

By the time this comes we might not need it anymore. At least the desktop crowd.

[scottishduck]

Why do we need X.Org releases anymore?

Do people really use more than xorg-server these days?

[curaga]

As mentioned in the article, it's both good PR and a checked set that's guaranteed to work together.

[uid313]

I hope Xwayland gets merged!

Too bad, its so long time until next katamari.
12 months would maybe be alright, more than that gets too long.

[plonoma]

Wasn't there some work left for XKB?
If it is I would really wanted to see this done!

Since it's kinda critical to using a lot of desktops and other computers.

[alanc]

Do people really use more than xorg-server these days?

A server without clients is fairly useless, so pretty much everyone uses at least some of the client libraries (libX11, libXext, libxcb, etc.).

An X server with no devices is also not that interesting, so many people find installing at least a couple driver modules for input & video devices is worthwhile.

And then people like to read docs, have some fonts to view in their applications, etc. so a few more modules often come on board.

[daniels]

Wasn't there some work left for XKB?
If it is I would really wanted to see this done!

Since it's kinda critical to using a lot of desktops and other computers.

most xkb development is happening in libxkbcommon rather than x itself. unfortunately the xkb spec is way too prescriptive to be able to usefully extend it, except for high keycodes which i guess are planned at some stage.