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Wayland 1.4 Released — Touch, Sub-Surface Protocol, Crop/Scale Support

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

An anonymous reader writes "Version 1.4 of the Wayland protocol and Weston reference compositor have been released. The Wayland/Weston 1.4 release delivers on many features and includes promoting the sub-surface protocol to official Wayland, improved touch screen support, a crop/scale protocol within Weston, security improvements, and other fixes."

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  1. OMG NO NETWORK TRANPARENCY!!!1 by Tailhook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just to preclude about half of the coming threads.

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    Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
  2. Re:Wayland! by gazbo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ah now to be fair, pulseaudio wasn't all bad. In its early mainstream (Fedora 12?) days, when I had audio problems, I knew that I could always type `killall pulseaudio` and reliably solve them.

    So...there's that.

  3. Re:So... what is it? by 0123456 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some guys who worked on Xorg/X11 for years are redesigning it to be better.

    Yes.

    'Xorg sucks, but this new interface it will be much better. Trust us! We wrote Xorg!'