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Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12

Posted by Soulskill on from the wayland-waylaid dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GNOME 3.12 was going to have official Wayland support as one of its main features for the upcoming desktop release. The developers have now decided to delay the official Wayland support until at least GNOME 3.14 while the support found there will be shipped as a preview. Missing features like drag 'n' drop and clipboard support are still missing from GNOME's Wayland code, which made them decide another six months of development work is needed. Other GNOME 3.12 features are mentioned on the GNOME Wiki."

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  1. Bad options for users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Gnome was going to remove support for drag-n-drop and clipboard anyway. Those things are options in all other OSes, right? And they are too complicated and nobody uses them, right?

  2. Re:This is surprising by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope this isn't because Wayland is that bad, but rather because the Gnome team has learned some lessons about removing the stuff that works and putting in stuff that is not ready for prime time yet.

    At the risk of stating the obvious, prepare to have your hopes crushed.

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  3. The real reason for the delay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    for i in /usr/bin /usr/sbin ; do
    "${i}" --version
    done

    systemd 208
    +PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ ... ...

    and once it reaches wayland the output says

    wayland 1.10
    not yet depending on systemd

    The real reason!

  4. In other words... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wayland waylaid; now way late.

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