Wayland and Fedora

[Neal Becker]

Matthias Clasen wrote:

> As you may have seen, I have proposed[1] that GNOME should move towards
> Wayland. We hope to have experimental Wayland compositor support in GNOME
> shell in the fall, and a complete port of the GNOME desktop a year from now. 
> See [2] for more details.
> 
> What does this mean for Fedora ?
> 
> I don't think this will affect the rest of the distribution in a majorly
> disruptive way. In particular, it won't force other desktop environments to
> move away from X. gdm will learn to launch Wayland-based sessions, but it will
> still be able to start X-based sessions. X applications will continue to run
> as they used to, including remotely. And GNOME applications will continue to
> work under X.
> 
> Here is what I envision:
> 
> f19:
>  - wayland + weston (the reference Wayland compositor) are available
>  - gtk3 and clutter are built with their Wayland backends
>  - it is possible to test individual GTK+ applications under weston, by
>  setting GDK_BACKEND=wayland
> 
> f20:
>  - will have a gnome-shell that can run as a Wayland compositor
>  - gdm can start Wayland and X sessions
>  - there will be an experimental GNOME/Wayland session in the session chooser
>  (probably in an optional package) - most GNOME apps can run under Wayland
>  - the X-based GNOME will still be the default
> 
> f21:
>  - the Wayland based GNOME will be the default
>  - a GNOME/X session will still be available
> 
> (of course, all of this may change, depending on how the porting works out).
> 
> 
> [1]
> [https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-March/msg00059.html
> [2] https://live.gnome.org/Wayland

I'm also curious about how wayland might work with kde.