Wayland and Xfce

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 1/10/22 05:59, Alex wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> we have this wayland roadmap: 
> https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
>
> Though currently nobody is working on it.
>
> Like you can see, many components already run fine on wayland, though
> others do not and how to port them is to be discussed.
>
> Manjeet Singh started to look into GtkPlug replacement, however afaik
> his work is currently stalled.
> @Manjeet: It would be great if you could open an issue to sum up what
> you figured out so far.

Thanks for the update.  I kind of wish I could lend a hand, but I left 
programming sooooo long ago.  I never even programmed in C, only B.

Though I semi-jokingly say I program in English as I help write 
standards.  In IETF, IEEE, ASTM, and others.  We have painfully learned 
over the decades to really pay attention to those commas and CapitaliZaTion.

>
> > One cute comment I saw that Xfce will have to be called 'E', as it is
> no longer 'fc' and once it jettisons X, well...
>
> Pfff, not interested in wasting the spare resources in renaming.
> Currently the abbreviation doesn't stand for anything:
> https://docs.xfce.org/faq#what_does_it_mean

Been there in so many standards.  We come up with a good name and 
somewhere along the way we get disconnected from why we came up with the 
name, but it is too late to change.  The marketers already own the name.

>
> Cheers,
> Alex(xcons)
>
>
> Am 09.01.22 um 17:46 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>> OK, talk on the Fedora users list about this thing called Wayland had
>> me doing some research.  Like is this something that will be of
>> concern at some point with Xfce???
>>
>> Well a bit of an eye-opener.  Bye, bye, miss American X11....
>> (Recently saw some fun utubes on McLean :) ).
>>
>> So where is Xfce wrt Wayland, that I have run now since 2017 or '18?
>>
>> I found one discussion back in Mar '21 about plans for Xfce 4.18 and
>> supporting Wayland.  Fedora35 uses 4.16.
>>
>> Does anyone know current efforts on Wayland (that seems to be where
>> Linux desktops have to go or die) for Xfce?
>>
>> One cute comment I saw that Xfce will have to be called 'E', as it is
>> no longer 'fc' and once it jettisons X, well...
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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