Intel Hacks On Tablet Shell For Wayland's Weston

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Hacks On Tablet Shell For Wayland's Weston

Aside from the normal desktop shell for Wayland's Weston reference compositor, open-source Intel developers have resurrected work on a tablet-oriented shell for this fledging display server...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE1Mzc

[89c51]

It seems that they are preparing an efl/wayland tablet or something. Tizen probably.

[Yfrwlf]

Can someone explain to me why developers feel they need to make 101 different desktop environments instead of just making one that can be scaled to any size screen and have scalable icons for being more touch or stylus-friendly? Then you can just have different default settings if you want to package a distro bundle for a specific interface type/size.