F22: nautilus will not allow desktop icons if using session type "Gnome on Wayland"

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 09:14 +0100, Giulio 'juliuxpigface' wrote:
> Hi Joachim,
> 
> I think it's not a bug, the warning is clear enough. I'd say that 
> this
> feature is not ready yet, but the developers are aware of it and know
> it's missing. The message is like a placeholder that warns users, but
> it's not a real error/exception.
> 
> But hey, this is just my opinion and experienced users may know
> something I don't :)...

I would leave out the "yet" here.

Nautilus, the application, works just fine under Wayland. Nautilus, 
the former desktop component, does not and we don't have high-priority 
plans to change that. The classic session will continue to use X for 
now. 

What we do plan wrt. to the nautilus desktop window is to move it to a 
separate process, so that the nautilus application can stop carrying 
this ballast. 

> 
> Regards
> 
> // Giulio (juliuxpigface)
> 
> 
> > On 03/28/2015 08:07 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 07:34 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > > > Changed my session type to "Gnome on Wayland". After relogging 
> > > > in, I
> > > > see
> > > > no more desktop icons. Killing nautilus and starting in a
> > > > gnome-terminal, I see the following message:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ** (nautilus:4636): Warning **: Desktop icons only supported 
> > > > on X11.
> > > > Desktop not created.
> > > > 
> > > > Will this mean that nautilus will not run completely on
> > > > Gnome/Wayland?
> > > 
> > > Well, I mean, it means what it says. It can't display icons on
> > > Wayland. I'm not sure what else you're asking?
> > > 
> > 
> > Is this a bug or a feature? Additionally, will this mean that 
> > nautilus 
> > will be never running under wayland?
> > 
> > Joachim Backes
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two)
> > Kernel-4.0.0-0.rc5.git4.1.fc22.x86_64
> > 
> > 
> > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
> > https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
> 
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