Wayland/Weston 0.99 Is Out, 1.0 Next Monday

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland/Weston 0.99 Is Out, 1.0 Next Monday

Wayland v0.99.0 was released yesterday evening along with a matching version of the reference Weston compositor. The planned Wayland 1.0 release is penciled in for next week Monday, 22 October...

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

[plonoma]

Due to the last minute API breakage, he's letting the 0.99.0 snapshots bake for a week

One week seems a bit on the short side.

[89c51]

I hope this announcement will get all the top end graphics hackers take a look at it and see if something is wrong.

[Rigaldo]

Cool, can't wait for the first official release. It also means we'll soon be able to see how good(or bad) Wayland really is, and I have a bit of a good feeling of course.
It should only get easier to test/see it from first hand from now on.

[89c51]

Cool, can't wait for the first official release. It also means we'll soon be able to see how good(or bad) Wayland really is, and I have a bit of a good feeling of course.
It should only get easier to test/see it from first hand from now on.

Its the desktop guys that "hold it back" and some basic apps of course (ie. firefox). Hope that after the official release we'll see a full desktop in a few months time.

[Awesomeness]

Its the desktop guys that "hold it back" and some basic apps of course (ie. firefox). Hope that after the official release we'll see a full desktop in a few months time.

As the article already states: Wayland is far from being usable. The 1.0 release means only stability regarding to APIs. Up until now Wayland was too much of a moving target for other developers to port to it.

IMO modifying applications and its toolkits to look reasonable on retina displays is a more important goal.

[89c51]

As the article already states: Wayland is far from being usable. The 1.0 release means only stability regarding to APIs. Up until now Wayland was too much of a moving target for other developers to port to it.

IMO modifying applications and its toolkits to look reasonable on retina displays is a more important goal.

Hmmmm.

Are there things missing in the protocol for writing a full featured compositor or its just weston thats not feature full? I was under the impression that only the text stuff were not ready yet.

[Rigaldo]

Weston is like an "example" compositor from my understanding. It's not excactly meant to be used by DE's etc(unless they choose to). Possibly will likely have more usage like twm, as fallback/test that the windowing system works, rather than desktop use. Can someone who knows better confirm.

But yeah, with 1.0 release and API stability, it should start to be targeted by more for compatibility(as mentioned). ^_^

[Pallidus]

good good

xorg needs to die, die and be cremated and forgotten for it was written in the language of c+fail

wayland will usher in the age of redemption for linux. I can picture it right now:

fedora 19 with kernel 4.3 and wayland and btrfs and arm and lack of aids.

hopefully by that time the gnome fags will realize no one is gonna put their shit on a smartphone/tablet and will get a clue.


"IMO modifying applications and its toolkits to look reasonable on retina displays is a more important goal. "

IMO no one cares about your homosexuality or your apple products

[Rigaldo]

good good

xorg needs to die, die and be cremated and forgotten for it was written in the language of c+fail

wayland will usher in the age of redemption for linux. I can picture it right now:

fedora 19 with kernel 4.3 and wayland and btrfs and arm and lack of aids.

hopefully by that time the gnome fags will realize no one is gonna put their shit on a smartphone/tablet and will get a clue.


"IMO modifying applications and its toolkits to look reasonable on retina displays is a more important goal. "

IMO no one cares about your homosexuality or your apple products

Wait wait... Kernel 4.3 within around a year and a half? 0_o