browser status on "pure wayland"
Yomi Ogunwumi
abyomi0 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 11:12:48 PDT 2014
What made adding video decoding acceleration in Chromium on Wayland
possible?
Would I be correct in guessing that Chromium on X11 doesn't have this
functionality?
Yomi
On Jun 17, 2014 9:36 AM, "Tiago Vignatti" <tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com>
wrote:
> yup, Ozone-Wayland enables a bunch of Chromium based targets including the
> Chromium Browser.
>
> I have it daily running on my testing machines and the state is quite
> good, with most of expected functionalities in place. In fact yesterday
> I've added video decoding acceleration support (through libva) to it, so on
> this aspect Chromium on Linux is more advanced on Wayland than on X11 :)
>
> You're welcome to join #ozone-wayland at freenode to chat with developers
> and other users.
>
> Tiago
>
> On 06/17/2014 05:23 AM, Caner Altinbasak wrote:
>
>> You can check ozone-wayland(wayland port of chromium):
>> https://github.com/01org/ozone-wayland
>>
>>
>> On 17 June 2014 01:34, Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com
>> <mailto:andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello There!
>>
>> Apologies if this has been discussed for years now but I've managed
>> to build weston on wayland without any X11 dependency and miserably
>> failed to build a WebKitGTK even forcing GTK3 which does build
>> without problems on X-less systems.
>>
>> in WebKit2 --gtk=3.0 GTK2 is still required for some reason behind
>> the scene but GTK2 won't build without xorg libraries which is kinda
>> a fail since I had to bring in X related stuff that messed up with
>> all other autogen.sh builds ^_^
>>
>> Qt would probably be my best bet but AFAIK they are moving from
>> QtWebkit to QtWebEngine and I'm not sure what's the status there (is
>> this still the case?)
>>
>> Long story short: I'd like to have a pure wayland browser but I've
>> no idea how to build one without bringing X libraries in.
>>
>> Can anyone please point me to a previous discussion or give me hints
>> for a possible solution/repo/build instructions?
>>
>> Thanks a lot and most of all, thanks for Wayland, it's amazing so far!
>>
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