wayland and broadway support in gtk

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 17:34:48 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/1/24 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm tentatively planning to enable the Wayland and Broadway backends in GTK+ for f19.
>
> Great!
> Yes, please - we're all waiting for this.
> Could you please briefly explain which GTK appls will gain Wayland
> support after this? I bet we won't be able to run LO or Gimp on
> Wayland yet but maybe something smaller, like image viewer, or
> terminal emulator.

Gimp and LO are not even gtk3 apps (yet) this only applies to gtk3 apps.

As for which apps work ... everyone that does not do direct X calls
should work (i.e no direct dependence on X11).


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