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If you're interested, the author of Sway recently open-sourced the draft of his book on Wayland: https://wayland-book.com/ https://wayland-book.com/
by cycloptic 6y ago
If you're interested, the author of Sway recently open-sourced the draft of his book on Wayland: https://wayland-book.com/ https://wayland-book.com/
- alxlaz 6y agoI know about that book, and it certainly fills a big void (but it is an early draft -- 3-4 years ago, when I had to learn it, this wasn't around). It's good introductory material, IMHO, and it says a lot about the priorities of the companies involved in Wayland (and FOSS in general) that it's pretty much the only one of its kind, and written by a volunteer. If Wayland ever really becomes a successful desktop technology, Drew DeVault will have played an extraordinarily important role in it. It's nowhere near the kind of documentation that X11 had, but there is also no way that is ever going to happen without serious commercial backing. The team that worked on the The Definitive Guides to the X Window System book series was probably larger than all the teams that worked on all FOSS Wayland compositors in existence -- and could work on it full-time.
- cycloptic 6y agoI know what you mean, I learned it around 1.5 years ago and there was almost no written material at all. The way I did it was to source dive into libwayland and weston for a couple weeks. There is no coalition of big Unix vendors all putting money into it trying to build their own desktop platforms this time. It's all the embedded people shipping small devices running mostly static software stacks.