On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:45:05AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> In our meeting today we agreed that having testable primary selection
> and startup notification mechanisms (testable != bug-free) for Alpha
> would be part of determining whether Wayland could be switched to
> default in F24.
>
> However, there are a couple other items that need addressing. Which
> of these should also block that decision? (Input is helpful, but note
> the WG needs to make a decision on these points.)
>
> * Tablet support and protocols
> (I take it this is "~equivalent set to what we handle now in GNOME")
I'm sad to see that Output Rotation was left off this list. I'd argue
that more people use Rotation than use Graphics Tablet (Wacom) input
devices.
> * Input methods
> (Needs a fix for positioning the chooser apparently?)
>
> * On screen keyboard
> (This seems on a good trajectory from what Matthias said, but
> doesn't hurt to include.)
>
> * Accessibility features
> (Michael Catanzaro mentioned a set of these taken from
> <
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features#accessibility_features>.
> However, the outlook seems not good, and IMHO we need a better story
> for a11y users.)
Yes, I think it would be a shame to ship with a11y regressions.
"Completely agree on accessibility features. All I can offer is that on
present f23 and arch, orca works fine in gnome 3.18 when wayland is
used, but it's always possible there are regressions, possibly serious
ones. I remember that when wayland first came on the scene accessibility
wasn't working and it took a lot of work before it was.
Thanks
Kendell clark"