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The problem is that it requires dbus, which not everone is on board with. Our argument is that the Wayland compositor should speak the Wayland protocol. That be
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
The problem is that it requires dbus, which not everone is on board with. Our argument is that the Wayland compositor should speak the Wayland protocol. That being said, the software I mentioned can be used to bridge between the two camps.
Following your edit: yes, the new standard protocol for primary selection is very new. But everyone supports the GTK protocol and the transition will not be visible to users.
Dude, so many edits: "But there is no one player like with X server" -> this player is wlroots
Oh my god man, stop editing your comment: "How is the progress of using Vulkan for Wayland compositors and avoiding the whole EGLstreams mess?" -> hard to say now, it's very very early.
- shmerl 8y agoThanks for answering :) > this player is wlroots One of the players still, since for example KWin isn't using it. I.e. it unfortunately came too late to unify the situation.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoA strong majority of Wayland compositors are using wlroots. Those that don't are in the minority, but they are mostly cooperative with wlroots aside from GNOME and E.
- Twirrim 8y agoIsn't GNOME the biggest single desktop by market share?
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoIt's hard to measure. Probably?
- shmerl 8y agoOnly because Ubuntu users started implicitly using it. KDE looks more popular among those who are explicitly choosing a DE.
- Spivak 8y agoBut how do you know if someone explicitly chooses GNOME when it's the default?
- shmerl 8y agoLooking at GOL stats for example, Gnome usage grew when Ubuntu switched from Unity to Gnome (on roughly the amount of Ubuntu users). Before that, KDE had higher usage overall. So my conclusion is that Gnome's majority today can be driven by implicit Ubuntu's choices.
- shmerl 8y agoThat's good, but even if one isn't cooperative, it complicates things. And Gnome is quite big.