Wayland 1.0 Coming "In A Month Or Two"

[89c51]

...I think the biggest issue right now is I don't think all window managment features exist in Wayland/weston right now...

Elaborate.

[nerdopolis]

Elaborate.

I think things like raising/lowering keepabove/keepbehind and like focus prevention...

[asdx]

Wayland/Weston rocks.

Apple & Nvidia: Fuck you.

[curaga]

Hell's gates will open in about 2 months I guess...Knowing Canonical we can expect Ubuntu 13.04 jump on wayland and make it mandatory and probably since 12.10 is coming in about 2 months we can expect even 12.10 to run wayland with about 2 hours of testing from the team.... A sad day indeed it will be, oh God of Wayland have mercy on us, the ones that don't want to reboot after an upgrade and stare into the black abyss of the terminal screen because of incompatible drivers and bugs!

Nono, you got it wrong, Ubuntu will remove terminals too in favor of Wayland. So if wayland fails, you don't get a text console even.

[uid313]

Hell's gates will open in about 2 months I guess...Knowing Canonical we can expect Ubuntu 13.04 jump on wayland and make it mandatory and probably since 12.10 is coming in about 2 months we can expect even 12.10 to run wayland with about 2 hours of testing from the team.... A sad day indeed it will be, oh God of Wayland have mercy on us, the ones that don't want to reboot after an upgrade and stare into the black abyss of the terminal screen because of incompatible drivers and bugs!

Ubuntu doesn't compile GTK with the Wayland backend enabled yet.
nouveau and radeon does not have Xwayland merged in yet.

Ubuntu 12.10 is in a feature freeze. Wayland is in available in the repository, but will not be installed by default.

Elaborate.

You can move, resize, maximize, unmaximize and close windows.
However, you can not minimize windows. Minimize functionality is not implemented yet. There is no taskbar.

[BO$$]

Ubuntu doesn't compile GTK with the Wayland backend enabled yet.
nouveau and radeon does not have Xwayland merged in yet.

The worse it is the faster it will be merged seems to be the Canonical philosophy so that's why I'm worried.

[uid313]

The worse it is the faster it will be merged seems to be the Canonical philosophy so that's why I'm worried.

Not really.
GTK have support for Wayland.
But Ubuntu did not compile in the support for Wayland in GTK with the --enable-wayland switch.
I wish they would enable the Wayland backend though since it should not affect the X11 backend.