Canonical "Won't Fix" GTK+ Wayland For Ubuntu

[ворот93]

I think you must have misinterpreted what I wrote. I'm not suggesting increasing their iso size or doing anything I believe will sacrifice stability.

Adding more backends to GTK = increasing distribution size and potentially creating new bugs.

[Darxus]

Adding more backends to GTK = increasing distribution size and potentially creating new bugs.

Not if they're broken out into dynamically loadable libraries not included in the iso.

[ворот93]

Not if they're broken out into dynamically loadable libraries not included in the iso.

Someone in this thread mentioned that in case of GTK all backends are loaded at once and cannot be separated (unlike Qt).

[Darxus]

Someone in this thread mentioned that in case of GTK all backends are loaded at once and cannot be separated (unlike Qt).

Yes. And then you argued with my post without reading it.

I have no reason to believe the Wayland backend of GTK cannot be broken out into a dynamically loadable library, as in Qt. That just hasn't been done yet, so at the packaging level, it can't be split up. I've opened a bug requesting it in response to the "won't fix" this article is about: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690381

[newwen]

I believe they're going to enable it in the 13.04 release, because libegl1-mesa already depends on libwayland0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+s....0/+bug/954352