Re: A little experiment: GNOME on wayland-only?

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 4:23 pm, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org> 
wrote:
> If you still want to preserve X11 support, these modules do need to 
> keep linking to X11 components:

So our regular build has to continue to depend on X11 indefinitely, 
because we want to build flatpaks that work under X11. And distros 
certainly do as well, because they need to support X applications 
indefinitely. But I don't think our VM images necessarily need to 
support X applications. I suppose Javier's experiment is to see if we 
can get VM images working nicely without any X stuff at all. In this 
scenario, preserving X11 support is not needed.

> Beyond that, AFAICT if other regular GNOME session services/apps 
> indirectly rely on X11 at build/runtime, it's an oversight.

Well there is libgnomekbd. That seems like the main issue currently, as 
it's required for core desktop functionality but still doesn't work 
under Wayland. (It only works currently because it sets 
GDK_BACKEND=x11.)

Michael