Vote: making wayland=on default

Ultima ultima1252 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 19:40:11 UTC 2017


I support adding wayland support on by default as well. It
still is WIP in several areas one I have not seen mentioned
yet includes nvidia graphics cards. Needing to rebuild
several ports just to test does seem a bit too much though.

Best regards,
Richard Gallamore

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Yuri
>
> To be clear, we're not transitioning to anything, we're simply adding
> more options. Compare it to adding a new window manager for X, it
> doesn't mean you have to stop using the existing ones...
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> > On 12/20/17 01:20, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
> >>
> >> For any Desktop user (as well as embedded devices
> >> like IVI-systems and whatnot), Wayland is the future. There's no
> >> escaping that.
> >
> >
> > Over the history of its development, Wayland could never clearly answer
> the
> > question "What are the benefits of Wayland for the end user?".
> > Additionally, they always advocated the removal of features like
> networked
> > connections, window manager features.
> >
> > It appears that this is the case of fixing of something (xorg) that
> > wasn't/isn't broken in the first place. And if it is considered broken,
> then
> > how, in which way?
> >
> > But you are right, it is a reality that Wayand devs had enough
> horsepower to
> > eventually, after many years, make it and now impose it on everybody, and
> > force it to be a future reality.
> >
> > There are a lot of things that need to be verified that they work:
> x11vnc,
> > the ability to connect to a display remotely, every window manager should
> > work with it, ex. xfce4, dwm.
> >
> > People should be asking the question "What's the benefit of the
> transition
> > to X?". The answer should include the functional benefits to users, not
> just
> > "We need to switch to something called X." What new features or
> improvements
> > will users actually see?
> >
> >
> > Just my 2c.
> > Yuri
> >
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