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Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12
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."
I hope people stop harping on the GNOME team, at this point it should be clear to some end users that the gnome-shell interface has come together. 3.8 and 3.10 are beautiful once you install extensions the act of which could not be easier and browsing new extensions is kind of fun. The dev team has had terrible communication problems and I get pissed off when they remove stuff like transparency in gnome-terminal, but extensions often replace missing features (compiz wobble for example). Over time my Arch linux installs have become something I can show my friends and be proud of, this is in no small part thanks to GNOME developers. I love GNOME and I wish more distros were able to experience bleeding edge gnome-shell, hopefully as time goes on they will. And when Debian stable users get moved to 3.8 and their transparent shell goes away hopefully someone like me will be there to tell them to grab the xcfe4-terminal and trust the developers decision to deprecate what they claim was unmaintainable code.