Wayland 1.16 & Weston 5.0 Reach Alpha

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland 1.16 & Weston 5.0 Reach Alpha

Samsung's Derek Foreman has announced the alpha release of Wayland 1.16 as well as the Weston 5.0 reference compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-1.16-Weston-5.0-Alpha

[awesz]

Great stuff... for "smart" refrigerators and related.

[timofonic]

Great stuff... for "smart" refrigerators and related.

What do you mean? :P

[Venemo]

Does anyone actually use Weston?

[timofonic]

Does anyone actually use Weston?

Who knows. Let's see if anyone replies. There is libweston too.

[hrkristian]

Does anyone actually use Weston?

Does that matter? It's supposed to be more of a reference, no?

[KellyClowers]

I use Weston. I will probably switch to Sway once the new version is ready, but in the meantime Weston has worked ok for me for over a year

[creative]

Weyland-Yutani and Seegson.

[Zan Lynx]

I use Weston whenever I want to see if a problem is in a Wayland implementation or in gnome-shell. Turns out that almost every time I found a performance problem using Wayland, it was gnome-shell. Weston is much smoother and consistent since it isn't trying to run Javascript and who knows what.