Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:12 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:

> To the extent that those apps call (and link) only against the toolkit
> and not against an assumed backend, sure.  The strict linking changes in
> F12 or F13 or whichever it was helped a lot with this, and gtk3 will
> help more, but to pick an arbitrary example:
> 
> % ldd `which gcalctool` | grep libX
> 	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x05f1a000)
> 	libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x001c1000)
> 	libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d42000)
> 	libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x001c6000)
> 	libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x001cf000)
> 	libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x0094e000)
> 	libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x0095d000)
> 	libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x009c8000)
> 	libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0x001d2000)
> 	libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0x001d5000)
> 	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x006f8000)
> 

GTK+ backends are linked in at this time. 
One of the things that we will need to address before switching to
wayland-with-X-fallback-for-remote-or-poor-hw becomes a realistic
possibility.