[fpc-pascal] wayland support for FPC

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On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> 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.
>
> Bottom line, existing X11 apps will apparently continue to run on
> Wayland. So we have time…

Qt5 afaik, does not support X11 anymore, only wayland, and that's the
main path most Linux toolkits takes today.
v1.0 suppose to provide stable API afaik, that's what opendesktop
wrote at least.

I looked at the API headers, and it looks very simple +-, but I'm not
going to bind it at this time.

>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
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