Taiwins 0.2.9 is out

[Sichem Zhou]

Hi all,

passed few days I synced the documentation[1] up. Through documenting on how
to use libtaiwins, surprise to me, I just found out one can write a
working wayland
compositor using libtaiwins with as few as 100 lines of code. Much less than the
stun I had to pull out by using wlroots. On the other hand, libtaiwins is also
flexible enough for customize a unique compositor, it doesn't get in
your way for
making the compositor look like the way you want.

I hope libtaiwins is useful to you as it to me, for any potential new
wayland coders,
I think it lower the bar quite a bit for entering, compared to when I
started 5 years
ago :). Then if you find anything you don't like, needs fixing, I am
always here.

Cheers,
Xichen

[1] https://github.com/taiwins/taiwins/blob/master/docs/libtaiwins.md

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 11:08 PM Sichem Zhou <sichem.zh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Roman,
>
> Le mar. 2 févr. 2021 20 h 36, Roman Gilg <subdiff at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 4:40 PM Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sunday, January 31st, 2021 at 3:41 PM, Sichem Zhou <sichem.zh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Back in September 2020, I released the 0.2 version of Taiwins, which
> > > > was utilising wlroots for backend handling. I have gone on
> > > > implementing backend logics and Laid out most of the ground work.
> > >
> > > I'm curious, why did you choose to re-write your own compositor from
> > > scratch instead of using wlroots? Not trying to say that it's a bad
> > > idea, just trying to understand the motivation. :)
> >
> > Hi Xichen,
> >
> > I would also be interested in hearing your reasons for that.
> >
> > In any case, an interesting project you got there. What are your
> > future plans for collaboration?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Roman
> >
> > > Simon
> > > _______________________________________________
>
> I am crying in tears right now, thanks for your interest.
>
> My current plan for taiwins is getting it to run as a daily driver.
> The Last major missing piece right now is XWayland components(I
> already started, but missing selection and DnD support). In terms of
> collaboration, now I realized I did not take a newcomer's
> point-of-view. I have an incomplete list here[1] but it may not offer
> many clues, I will think about how to improve on that next few days,
> then I will update on this list. In the meantime, any suggestions,
> issues, emails are welcome :).
>
>
> > > wayland-devel mailing list
> >
> > > wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> >
> > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
>
> Regards,
> Xichen
>
> [1] https://github.com/taiwins/taiwins/blob/master/docs/progress.md