Re: Porting GNOME to Wayland

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 15/03/13 18:32, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> For more details about Wayland see: http://wayland.freedesktop.org
> For more details about this proposal, see http://live.gnome.org/Wayland
>
>
> Let me know what you think,

Hi Matthias, I had a few questions to satisfy my own curiosity :)

I am neutral here (before I say anything further) - I do not prefer X or 
anything else.

What are the benefits of moving to Wayland?
  Performance improvements?
  Smaller memory footprint?
  Something else?

Is this likely to cause regressions or be problematic with OpenGL or 
Wine based aps/games running on the GNOME shell desktop? I understand 
vaguely the relationship between GTK+ and Wayland, but not how a raw GL 
based application or how a Wine based app would work with Wayland?

Why do I ask this? Well, I've started playing more Steam games on Linux 
recently and historically played many through Wine and want to know the 
user impact.

Thanks,

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.