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Note that this is not equivalent to saying "we plan to not/we will not support Xwayland." It just means it's not currently in the pipeline (and may or may not b
by reikonomusha 9y ago
Note that this is not equivalent to saying "we plan to not/we will not support Xwayland." It just means it's not currently in the pipeline (and may or may not be in the future).
- dpark 9y agoThere's no meaningful difference between these. Not planning support is equivalent to planning no support.
- cookiecaper 9y agoI mean, that depends, doesn't it? nVidia also refused to support KMS for a long time but they finally added it as it became a harder and harder requirement. KMS was a big overhaul and pre-requisite for modern stacks like Wayland. If that can get added, I'm reasonably confident that Wayland support will show up somewhere along the way (assuming that Wayland continues on its track to widespread adoption).
- dpark 9y agoNo, it doesn't depend. The two statements are equivalent. NVidia could certainly change their plans, but the particular way they phrase "no support" is irrelevant. It's not as if "we have no plans for support" could result in accidentally having support.
- vertex-four 9y agoWayland will be supported by nvidia. XWayland will not be. XWayland is a transition layer than runs X11 applications under Wayland. Generally speaking, most users will not need to do this.
- paulddraper 9y agoExactly. 95% of Linux users use X11 and 1% use Xwayland. Reverse those numbers and you'll hear a different story.
- majewsky 9y agoYou sure about these numbers? What's the share of Fedora users? (Genuine question.)
- curt15 9y agoHere's one source: "Speaking of the Linuxes, Ubuntu is tops among them with 12.3% of the entire OS market for developers. Fedora, Mint, and Debian accounted for 1.4%, 1.7%, and 1.9% of all responses, respectively." https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016