With the recent release of Wayland, I was currious about i3 plans regarding this display protocol.
Did anyone investigated how much work it would require ? Any work done ? I might be interested in contributing to the projet, if some guided routes are avaibles.
Nothing done, no immediate plans. The last time I tried the state of the art wayland fedora image, it was not usable at all. I don’t have time/motivation to be an early adopter in this case, so I’ll wait until some other window manager is ported over to wayland.
Updated to clarify that as of now (2013-07) this situation has not changed. SardemFF7 has expressed some interest in working on an i3 wayland port, though. See his page http://www.i3way.org/
It seems that some libraries are ported to Wayland and xwayland works well with lots of applications. A GNU/Linux distribution is made only on top of Weston and could be a good choice to test new software there: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/
Yet another update: GNOME has all its core applications working on Wayland. https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland. Do you have a timetable in mind yet?
Some recent links:
raspberrypi.org/archives/4053 (I use i3wm on my RPi since it's pretty light even on the current un-accelerated X, so this makes me sad)
hack.org/mc/blog/wayland-window-managers.html (some hope)
For what it's worth, Wayland includes a refernece a reference window manager/compositor, Weston.
Also, there is now ADWC, a tiling window manager for Wayland.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page...
But we'd all prefer I3 for Wayland, I'm sure ;)
Asked: Oct 23 '12
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