[fpc-pascal] wayland support for FPC

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 13:17:11 CET 2012


On 09/11/12 11:06, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2012-11-09 10:42, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> IOW, I wouldn't desperately try to support Wayland native at this point.
>>
>> That can be done if the native api turns out to be stable, Wayland truely
>> takes over X11, and all distros package it.
>>
>> Now it is just asking for pain IMHO.
> 
> +1
> That's exactly how I feel. There has been too many attempts to displace
> X11 - and they all tanked. Wayland does seems to have more backing than
> its predecessors though.

Most of Wayland's developers are also X developers, so it looks quite
promising.  Qt 5 support for Wayland is pretty complete, afaik, so
widgetsets are taking it seriously.

Henry



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