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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.'"
In my opinion...
Wayland + Systemd + Gnome 3 + kernelspace Dbus = transforming Linux into Windows. Or something more like Windows. They represent a complete rejection of the foundational Unix philosophy.
Regarding Wayland: You clearly have no idea how X works today. Todays X is not like Unix should be at all.
Regarding Dbus: How is a dbus protocol different from semaphores and shm in the kernel?
Regarding systemd, I agree and see it critically, because it is tries to solve everything at the same time. Perhaps the direction of OpenRC is more appropriate. But to criticise systemd you have to understand the issues: A number of links are on http://freedesktop.org/wiki/So... including http://0pointer.de/blog/projec...
Regarding Gnome3: Gnome3 is conceptionally little different than Gnome2, KDE or XFCE: Windows and pointers. I actually really like it. If you don't exchange it for something else. Very Unixy.
We have to keep in mind that the system we have today are not mainframes that are booted once and have their daemons running for months.
We have plug-and-play of devices and screens, hibernation, multiple input devices, while at the same time the screen output must not flicker or have delays beyond 50ms. It's a different arena today.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
X11 doesn't even do anything anymore. Go watch one of the many presentations made by the many developers who have been working on X11 for over 20 years. They're not even sure what X11 does anymore, nearly everything bypasses it and just pushes around buffers, which X11 does not handle well at all.
The one thing that stood out is they said X11 can not implement vsync at all without breaking all compatibility. They are embarrassed that code is still being used in 2014 that does not handle vsync and gives "screen tearing", which other systems have had fixed since the mid 90s.
99% of the current use cases for X11 are now managing buffers and X11 does not manage buffers. Wayland is designed to handle the most common use case in a good way.