Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Tim wrote:

> Allegedly, on or about 02 April 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> > Kind of what I was trying to say. Those apps that do talk to X
> > directly, such as window managers, need to be rewritten or use a
> > compatibility layer in the meantime.
>
> Gnome must learn how to use the new X, and the Gnome applications use
> Gnome, they don't use X directly?
>

More or less.  GTK and Clutter abstracts away the differences between X and
Wayland for the most part. Very few things like Window Managers and
Screenshot apps needs porting over and all apps must be tested with Wayland
explicitly to make sure it works ok.

Rahul
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