Wayland's Weston Now Handles Full-Screen X Windows

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland's Weston Now Handles Full-Screen X Windows

In conjunction with XWayland, Wayland's Weston reference compositor can now handle full-screen X windows...

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

[scionicspectre]

Waiting for Wayland's adoption has become a very sour experience. Just got a bitter taste in my mouth after reading this support won't be there officially until perhaps September. @_@ Crikey.

Still, I'm sure its arrival will be as sweet as anything we could have aside from widespread support from major software developers.

[mark45]

Waiting for Wayland's adoption has become a very sour experience. Just got a bitter taste in my mouth after reading this support won't be there officially until perhaps September. @_@ Crikey.

Still, I'm sure its arrival will be as sweet as anything we could have aside from widespread support from major software developers.

It's mostly because they're slow to develop it, for a project that is an order of magnitude smaller and simpler than X like 5 years of development is a lot. In 2008 there was one dev then there were more and it still doesn't support the most basic stuff you need on a desktop, like subsurface stuff (for plug-ins etc).

By trying to be (almost) perfect they're taking too much time which is a danger for them, at Canonical some assholes apparently are already planning to use their own stuff instead of Wayland.

[varikonniemi]

It is pathetic that Wayland takes so long to reach maturity since X is probably the only remaining HORRIBLE part of modern desktop Linux.

[89c51]

It is pathetic that Wayland takes so long to reach maturity since X is probably the only remaining HORRIBLE part of modern desktop Linux.

I don't think they have a huge team in order to pull something like this fast. X i think has more people.


And yes i am inpatient too and want it NOW. If i remember correctly there aren't much that need to be merged in order to have a usable desktop. (minus apps)

[blackout23]

I won't be using it on my desktop pc untill nvidia driver supports KMS anyway. Which I'm afraid will be never.

[Ancurio]

Ah, the peanut gallery strikes again ^^
Scream some more, maybe the wayland devs will actually get annoyed enough to care ( ..NOT).

[89c51]

Ah, the peanut gallery strikes again ^^
Scream some more, maybe the wayland devs will actually get annoyed enough to care ( ..NOT).

Its not their problem/fault. We have established that wayland is designed in a way that it will be easy to get blobs work with it.

[garegin]

It is pathetic that Wayland takes so long to reach maturity since X is probably the only remaining HORRIBLE part of modern desktop Linux.

dont make me laugh. pulseaudio has latency issues so that you have to use a different mixer if you want low latency. i hope this is not an inherent flaw, cause if it is lennard should be hung from a lamppost.

[JS987]

It is pathetic that Wayland takes so long to reach maturity since X is probably the only remaining HORRIBLE part of modern desktop Linux.

Wayland should never be adopted as it is broken by design. It will just slow down applications compared to X without compositing.