Green Island: A New Qt-Based Wayland Compositor
Pier Luigi announced Green Island this morning on the wayland-devel list. "I would like to share with you my work on a Wayland compositor and desktop shell made with QtQuick and QtCompositor and is using a set of components for QML to draw panels and widgets."
This Green Island compositor for Wayland is part of "Hawaii", a new Linux desktop environment being developed around Wayland. This desktop environment in turn is targeting Maui OS, a new Linux distribution. About the Maui desktop Linux distribution, "The idea behind Maui is to avoid traditional packages, the system provides a minimal image with kernel, systemd, connman and other core programs, the desktop environment and its dependencies and it's built from a set of git repositories from master or specific branches. Applications will be installed from bundles."
Below are a few prototype screenshots from Hawaii.
Unfortunately though due to the last minute API/protocol breakage within Wayland, Green Island currently requires Wayland 0.95 rather than the newly-minuted 1.0 release. As soon as the Qt Wayland support is ported to the 1.0 interfaces, Green Island / Hawaii should follow.
As said in the mailing list post, "This project is still young and needs your contributions, if you believe that a lightweight desktop environment and yet powerful, with attention to details and usability is possible this is a project you most certainly would want to take a look at. Green Island could also become the reference Qt-based compositor with your help."
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