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Re: Wayland backend design
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Gregory Casamento |
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Re: Wayland backend design |
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Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:18:53 -0500 |
Hey Sergio,
I am indescribably excited about this. It looks awesome. Just a few little
quirks! Wayland is definitely the way forward. Please consider putting this
up on in the repo on gna.org as this is an awesome development.
Gregory Casamento
GNUstep Maintainer/Lead Developer
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(240)274-9630
> On Jan 13, 2016, at 8:09 PM, Sergio L. Pascual <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The past few nights, I've been playing around the idea of writing a
> Wayland backend for GNUstep (this is my first time hacking on GS,
> though I've contributed to other FOSS projects), first as a way of
> getting to know Wayland, and later to explore the possibility of a pure
> GNUstep Desktop Environment.
>
> So far, I've managed to write a functional prototype (consisting of a
> GS backend and a slightly modified Weston shell) which implements some
> basic window management. If you're curious, you can see a video from a
> screen capture here: https://sinrega.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/gnu
> step-wayland.webm
>
> It's a bit quirky, and the code is ugly, but as a prototype it serves
> its purpose. Now I'm considering coding a clean implementation, if no
> one else is already working on it.
>
> As GNUstep already has a Cairo backend, making it write to a Wayland
> surface, showing something on the screen, is easy. The hard part comes
> when you want to treat that surfaces as windows in the traditional
> desktop paradigm, as the basic Wayland protocol lacks the functionality
> required for this.
>
> So, I see three options for a GNUstep Wayland backend:
>
> 1. Use only the basic Wayland protocol. Not very useful, except for
> very specific uses.
>
> 2. Use Wayland and Weston's XDG protocols. This would allow to
> implement some window management, without window levels, ordering, nor
> absolute window positioning. Also, all features which depend on
> obtaining the location of the mouse would be broken too.
>
> 3. Use Wayland, Weston's XDG and some specific extensions, with a
> GNUstep-aware Weston shell. This would allow to implement all the
> functionality, and some nifty features like a static MainMenu and a
> Dock-like panel.
>
> Personally, I'd go with 3. People only wanting to run a single app
> would be still able to use the x11 backend, while the wayland backend
> could be used to explore the possibility of a dedicated Desktop
> Environment.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Sergio.
>
>
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- Wayland backend design, Sergio L. Pascual, 2016/01/13
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