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Chromium To Support Wayland

Posted by Unknown on from the moving-on dept.

sfcrazy writes "Chromium developers have started porting Chromium to X11 alternatives such as Wayland. Tiago Vignatti sent a message to the freedesktop mailing list, 'Today we are launching publicly Ozone-Wayland, which is the implementation of Chromium's Ozone for supporting Wayland graphics system. Different projects based on Chromium/Blink like the Chrome browser, ChromeOS, among others can be enabled now using Wayland.'"

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  1. More fragmentation? FANTASTIC. by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: 0, Troll

    Guys! guys! things aren't going quite my way... let me start again from scratch. This should help.

    1. Re:More fragmentation? FANTASTIC. by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yeah, that sure got me a cheap karma shot.

      I would probably have got modded up if the guilty party had been Microsoft, but every group falls into the trap of looking at the person rather than the action - even those groups which like to think they're better than average.

      Also, all groups fall into the trap of liking to think that they're better than average.

  2. Niche? by zoffdino · · Score: -1, Troll

    Q: What niche does Wayland fill between GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce, XLDE, Cinamon, CDE, EDE, Xito, Unity, GEM, etc?
    A: it's a garnish in the alphabet-soup that is Linux desktop manager.