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GNOME Aiming For Full Wayland Support by Spring 2014

Posted by Unknown on from the ten-little-kingdoms dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canonical's plan to develop the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu rather than going with their original plans to adopt Wayland has been met with criticism from KDE (and other) developers... The GNOME response to Ubuntu's Mir is that they will now be rushing support for the GNOME desktop on Wayland. Over the next two release cycles they plan to iron out the Wayland support for the GNOME Shell, the GTK+ toolkit, and all GNOME packages so that by this time next year you can be running GNOME entirely on Wayland while still having X11 fall-back support."

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  1. Re:It's ironic... by Hatta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For the record, as long as whatever display system we settle on provides network transparency for all applications, I don't care what's behind the hood.

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  2. Re:It's ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And relying on a bloated 3d stack just to draw a damn window isn't a bottleneck?

    Face it, the only people that want to replace X which works JUST FINE are people who want to play with their goddamn wobbly windows. We get enough of that garbage with compositing, thanks.

  3. Re:It's ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what I hear when I listen to X11 zealots:

    I DEMAND THE RIGHT TO USE MY 1988 MOTIF APPLICATION OVER A 28K modem connection AND FUCK ALL OF YOU WHO WANT A MODERN DESKTOP WITH A CODE BASE THAT CAN BE MAINTAINED AND IMPROVED.