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Gnome 3.12 Delayed To Sync With Wayland Release
sfcrazy writes "Gnome developers are planning to delay the release of Gnome 3.12 by approximately a week. It's a deliberate delay to sync the release with the availability of Wayland 1.5. Matthias Clasen (Fedora and Gnome developer) explains that 'the GNOME release team is pondering moving the date for 3.12.0 out by approximately a week, to align the schedule with the Wayland release plans (a 1.4.91 release including all the xdg-shell API we need is planned for April 1). The latter 3.11.x milestones would be shifted as well, to avoid lengthening the freeze period unnecessarily.'"
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Let me just point out, Wayland came out of the X11 community. This version of how they recruited is total fabrication.
X11 was the protocol for the last big 'users don't need good hardware' fad. In the brave old future, we'd all have dumb X terminals on our desk and run our software on big iron servers while the display went over the LAN to the X terminal.
In the brave new future, we're now going to run our software on virtual cloud servers while the display goes over the Internet to our web browser, using Javascript instead of X11.
Wayland you can actually describe to people, X I still haven't been able to.
Now I don't feel so bad about not understanding it.
That team of wayland developers happens to be largely the same team who used to work on X, and wayland is endorsed by the X.org foundation. I've no technical opinion of wayland, but it's easy to see that X.org and the developers of X are in a better position to evaluate the need for it than you are.
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