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GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

kthreadd writes "Version 3.8 of the GTK+ GUI framework has been released. A new feature in GTK+ 3.8 is support for Wayland 1.0, the display server that will replace X on free desktops. Among the other new features are improved support for theming, fixes to geometry management and improved accessibility. There is also better support for touch, as part of an ongoing effort in making GTK+ touch-aware."

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  1. Replace X? by Great+Big+Bird · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A new feature in GTK+ 3.8 is support for Wayland 1.0, the display server that will replace X on free desktops." Who said this is going to replace X on 'free desktops'? As far as I have been hearing, this is just another in a long line and because it hasn't done it yet, it is not justifiable to say it will.

    1. Re:Replace X? by armanox · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Agreed - it doesn't even do everything that X11 does. And some of us use those features.

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      I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
    2. Re:Replace X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah. The advantages of Wayland are actually pretty esoteric, if the goal is "I want to draw shit to my screen fast and efficiently". People think X is some clunking mess, and yet it was playing videos on computers 20 years ago.

      What X is, is old. And developers are bored with it. And they want something new and shiny and a chance to play with the hardware without abstraction throwing a wet blanket over their benchmark scores.

      The benchmark of success for Wayland is that _users_ don't actually notice that anything changed. They'll fall short of that benchmark because too many people like using X11, and even the backward compatibility inevitably will cause headaches.

      But developers will enjoy it more, and in the FOSS world those are the only consumers that matter.

  2. Thanks Canonical by angryfeet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If not for the announcement of Mir, this would have taken at least 5 years