Vote: making wayland=on default

Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de
Wed Dec 20 13:02:52 UTC 2017



> On 20. Dec 2017, at 13:32, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:20:20AM +0000, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I want to suggest that we enable wayland by default. In current state
>> having some parts of wayland in ports is basically useless the
>> end-users themselves re-build gtk30 and mesa-libs with wayland
>> enabled.
>> 
>> libwayland-egl.so from mesa-libs and the extra libraries and headers
>> from gtk30 adds like a few KB, a drop in the ocean compared to xorg
>> packages. (might be something more that I missed)
>> 
>> Personally I see no reason not to make it default on, even with
>> flavors coming up. For any Desktop user (as well as embedded devices
>> like IVI-systems and whatnot), Wayland is the future. There's no
>> escaping that.
>> 
>> Wayland has been quite usable on FreeBSD for over a year now but
>> access to it is limited due to the extra efforts required to use it.
>> 
>> If we are to compare with the other guys, several Linux distros are
>> already switching to wayland-based compositors as default window
>> server.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
> 
> I agree on that, we should activate wayland everywhere by defualt, as it does
> not prevent at all from having a fully fonctionnal regular X working as well.
> 
> All wayland option should be on, and this as nothing to do with flavors :)
> 
> Please do it :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt

I add my "vote" from the X11 list: Yes please, I had exactly that problem yesterday.

Best,
Michael


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