Wayland plans for gnome-shell? (was Re: Unity Update)

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

From: Alan Coopersmith <alan coopersmith oracle com>

> Piñeiro wrote:
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>> I know that probably this comment is doesn't 100% suits in this Unity
>> thread, but as you are talking about the GNOME 2.0 timeframe, I think
>> that it is worth to mention that for GNOME 3.0 time frame, it is
>> supposed that the magnification will be a feature instead of a
>> separate a11y tool. But a feature of GNOME-shell [1]
> 
> Good, sounds like what I was saying about having a11y features in the normal
> compositor instead of a a11y-only one like gnome-magnifier.   But for it,
> that still leaves the questions of:
>   1) Is gnome-shell ever going to port to Wayland or only support X11?
>   2) Does Wayland provide everything gnome-shell needs to provide those
>      features?
> 
> Wayland changes the way compositors integrate with the window system,
> so work would probably be needed to make gnome-shell work well with it.

No idea of Wayland plans for gnome-shell. CCing gnome-shell list so
they can provide extra information if they want.


BR

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