[Bf-committers] Wayland to soon release stable 1.0

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Reuben,

I'm not so negative about this development. Our GHOST library will be well able to handle it for Blender, without affecting our own roadmap much. People should feel welcome to help us with such ports, similar as for Android for example (even though we might do it via SDL).

-Ton-

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On 1 Feb, 2012, at 8:48, Sergey Sharybin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It's not o much code which interacts with X system directly -- mostly
> creating/deleting windows and catching keyboard/mouse events. It shouldn't
> be so difficult to adopt this stuff for wayland. Even more, we've got SDL
> support in GHOST library so we're kind of ready for wayland.
> 
> But, eeh.. I don't think positive about all that forces. Wayland is a way
> testing/ustable and even not sure if their protocol is finished already.
> The only distro which can force such switch is ubuntu. Distros like debian
> wouldn't switch in nearest future. So we'll have to support both
> X11/Wayland. Not sure if it's nicely implementable to support both things
> in the same binary.
> 
> What's also annoying here is that X12 protocol started to be defined. All
> this fragmentation of X systems makes me depressed..
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Reuben Martin <reuben.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> http://fosdem.org/2012/interview/kristian-hogsberg
>> 
>> Has anybody even looked into porting Blender's toolkit to Wayland? Qt and
>> Gtk
>> toolkits are chomping at the bit to move to Wayland, so I imagine that the
>> Linux distros will begin a hard push to move everything to Wayland in the
>> not-
>> too-distant fiuture.
>> 
>> -Reuben
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> 
> 
> -- 
> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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