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Interestingly, Wayland is used to some extent in Chrome OS, including for bringing Android apps into the windowing system. See e.g. https://qiangbo-workspace.o
by sho_hn 6y ago
Interestingly, Wayland is used to some extent in Chrome OS, including for bringing Android apps into the windowing system.
See e.g. https://qiangbo-workspace.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/2019-09-10-chromeos-with-android-app/Arcpp_Graphics.pdf https://qiangbo-workspace.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/2019-...
The implementation includes some interesting projects like Sommelier, a Wayland protocol proxy used as part of a setup to virtualize host resources safely: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEAD/vm_tools/sommelier/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/HEA...
- shmerl 6y agoYeah, I've seen that. I wish Android would close that gap and switch to standard Linux stack.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoThere's a reason it doesn't use the standard Linux stack: the standard Linux stack is a garbage fire. Throwing away the userspace of Linux Desktop and replacing it is what allowed Android to thrive.
- shmerl 6y agoThere is no reason today, besides historic ones.