Migrating applications to Wayland

[Marty Jack]

On 02/26/2011 08:14 AM, microcai wrote:
> 2011/2/26 José Expósito <jose.exposito89 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi! thanks for the answers... but now I have more questions that at
>> begining hahaha
>>
>>> 1 - Wayland support window management?
>>> Wayland is a compositor+window manager+display server AIO
>>
>> If Wayland is the window manager, what about projects like Compiz,
>> Kwin, etc? What about if a like to use a tiling window manager? And
>> window decoration or desktop effects?
> 
> compiz need to rewrite to use libwayland-server.
> 

You will find Compiz and Openbox people actively participating here, so I would expect your favorite variety of window placement and decoration to appear in due course.

>>
>>> 2 - Have any library like Xlib to work with it?
>>> Not in particular, however I believe there exists a demo toolkit. You're
>>> supposed to use toolkits such as Gtk+ and Qt in order to display things.
>>
>> Toolkits, for "standard program" are more than enough, but for
>> programs like a dock? How to get  the windows list, or minimize
>> windows? The dock will be part of the window system (comopisitor)?
> 
> refer to gnome-shell and unity , dock or panel is already part of compoisitor.
> 
>> Wayland will offer a dbus interface or similar to implement standarts
>> like ICCM, NetWM/EWMG or Drag and drop??
>>

Drag and drop is part of the protocol and is implemented.

As to EWMH not that I know of.  A large part of exposing that sort of information is not yet completely designed (or if it is, those who have done it have not shared the design).  I do not think it is a done deal that the panel/dock is living in the compositor, but that is one possible outcome.

Many of your questions might possibly be answered by a thorough reading of the mailing list and other documentation.  A good fraction of this has been discussed over at least once.

>>> 3 - Is compatible with uTouch?
>>> No, not yet likely will in the future.  (Maybe later this year).
>>
>>> 4 - Exist any program like Xephyr or Xnest that allow run Wayland in a
>>> dispay (or similar) and test there programs?
>>> Wayland can run on Wayland, X11, DRM, and in the future (now?):
>>> framebuffers. So you can essentially nest it on anything you want,
>>> including itself.
>>
>> Excellent news!
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much for your answers
>> Greetings!
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