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Intel, Red Hat Working On Enabling Wayland Support In GNOME

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-wonder-which-one-is-the-sidekick dept.

sfcrazy writes "After shooting down Canonical's Mir, Intel and Red Hat teams have increased collaboration on the development of Wayland. Developers at Intel and Red Hat are working together to 'merge and stabilize the patches to enable Wayland support in GNOME,' as Christian Schaller writes on his blog. The teams are also looking into improving the stack further. Weston won't be used anymore, so GNOME Shell will become the Wayland compositor. It must be noted that Canonical earlier committed to supporting and embracing Wayland. Despite that promise, the company silently stopped contribution, and it was later learned that they were secretly working on their own display server, Mir. Intel's management recently rejected patches for Mir, leaving its maintainance to Canonical. Before Intel's rejection, GNOME and KDE also refused to adopt Mir. Intel's message is clear to Canonical: if you promise to contribute, then do so."

3 of 168 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by kthreadd · · Score: 5, Informative

    The code base is old and hard to work with from what I've heard from the X hackers. It has reached a point where it might make sense to start over.

  2. Re:More petty bickering by spitzak · · Score: 5, Informative

    To be fair, Wayland really was not coming fast enough. I follow the Wayland developer mailing list, and it is apparent Mir seems to have kicked the Wayland developers in the butt and gotten them back to work. And they did fix some mistakes, in particular they realized that the server has to do event handling so that input methods work, rather than the previous idea that clients would have to interpret raw device events. I think they also fixed the other complaint Mir had which was the method to allocate window image buffers could not work with Android drivers, though this area is very confusing and it is not clear if it was a problem and/or whether it is fixed now.

  3. Re:The real agenda? by dominux · · Score: 5, Informative
    lets see . . .
    • Upstart was written before systemd started.
    • Unity was released before gnome-shell was released.
    • Mir is being released before Wayland.
    • Bzr was written before Git started.
    • Launchpad was written before Github (and is open source).

    Canonical bashing might be all the rage at the moment, but I can see how they are feeling a bit hard done by with all these accusations that they should have used subsequent products instead of the ones they wrote first.