Users of libweston?

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:05:58 -0500
Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Pekka's recent comments about wanting to enable set-top boxes built with
> libweston to do DRM content got me to wondering:
> 
> Who all is using libweston directly (as opposed to running /usr/bin/weston
> possibly with custom shells plugins or similar)? For my own purposes, I
> just use the full compositor because it's pretty lean and mean anyway, and
> I can do what I need by loading plugins.

Hi Matt,

I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't many users yet. There is a
huge amount of things I'd like to do before I could comfortably propose
using libweston. I still think it needs to be a goal in mind all the
time though, otherwise we'll never get there. :-)

IMO the major point of using libweston instead of weston is to be able
to customize the UX any way you want - all the stuff and policy that is
currecntly hardcoded in main.c and the desktop-shell plugin. Making all
configurable is probably not feasible.

My hope with gaining set-top box etc. use cases is to gather more people
developing for Weston, people who could be dedicated in the long run.
Maybe that could gain us more upstream maintainers.


Thanks,
pq
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