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I know, those were two separate categories. Regarding the Wayfield project, citing them: > It is very unlikely that distros will be ready to ship all the piece

by xvilka 5y ago

I know, those were two separate categories. Regarding the Wayfield project, citing them: > It is very unlikely that distros will be ready to ship all the pieces we need in the next 12 months. So the "short term" goal may actually need to wait for somewhat longer than that. https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/wakefield/Meeting+Notes https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/wakefield/Meeting+Note...

pjmlp 5y ago
Given the progress adopting Wayland I don't see that much of a problem that it will take some time to deliver a full working solution. The way you made your remark could be understood as if nothing was being done at all.
- xvilka 5y ago
  It's indeed not a problem if the Wayland sessions wouldn't become the default in mainstream distributions and these pesky HiDPI displays didn't become more affordable and popular among users. Don't get me wrong, the blame is squarely on the Java ecosystem that is too slow to keep up with the progress, Wayland developers did great job. The problem is that we still use some of that Java software, or some of that GTK2 software (GIMP), so it's better to accomodate the needs of that software, even if just temporarily.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Other than ChromeOS and WSL, hardly any distribution is Wayland only, so one can't really blame the Java community to focus improving Swing on Wayland, specially with other more relevant areas still in need. If anything the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem is too slow adopting Wayland.