Who wants to test wayland on raring after 5 years of development?

[ventrical]

Another member suggested this thread.

I tried , before and then just recently and I can't get past the screen that looks like an old blanket, although I was able to run FF and gksu gedit etc... but I had to be in the Weston compositor @ALT+CTRL+F1 but it would not work in terminal under Ubuntu. Maybe there is hope for it .. I dunno..

peace

errr.. MIR that is :)

[grahammechanical]

LOL!

United. Err .... Unity that is :)

Seriously. No. I cannot be serious about any of this fuss. Not when I think of the serious and sad situations that many are in all over the world. But, anyway there has been some testing in this forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1906762

Was tempted myself. But it looks too much like work.

[serdotlinecho]

LOL! United. Err .... Unity that is :)

This (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/)?

[ventrical]

ah HAHAHAHA haha ...!:)... Yeah .. yes .. all we need now is some Harmony :)

[ventrical]

This (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/)?


Thanks for posting this. I needed to see this.

"The next ISO I hope to release in 64 bit and 32 bit, and provide a Wayland native login manager to completely remove X from startup"

It's all more clear now.

[ventrical]

LOL!

United. Err .... Unity that is :)

Seriously. No. I cannot be serious about any of this fuss. Not when I think of the serious and sad situations that many are in all over the world. But, anyway there has been some testing in this forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1906762

Was tempted myself. But it looks too much like work.


Yep .. seen that .. tempted also. Point is that it is still running in X.

[cole.mickens]

I believe Maui is adopting SDDM soon and should offer a login and desktop compositor for a full Wayland experience.

[MG&TL]

I believe Maui is adopting SDDM soon and should offer a login and desktop compositor for a full Wayland experience.

This.

@Ventrical: no disrespect, but you're confusing weston with wayland. Weston is the 'old carpet' thing. That's the default desktop shell, it's just a demo of what's possible (and to be honest, not a very impressive one). However, once people start getting creative with Wayland (the protocol), there's a whole load of possibilites. The maui project is quite an impressive desktop shell if you can get it working, see here: http://www.maui-project.org/

[oldos2er]

Moved to Community Cafe.

[ventrical]

This.

@Ventrical: no disrespect, but you're confusing weston with wayland. Weston is the 'old carpet' thing. That's the default desktop shell, it's just a demo of what's possible (and to be honest, not a very impressive one). However, once people start getting creative with Wayland (the protocol), there's a whole load of possibilites. The maui project is quite an impressive desktop shell if you can get it working, see here: http://www.maui-project.org/

I really wish the whole project well and that it may be a success.

[MG&TL]

I really wish the whole project well and that it may be a success.

I didn't say you didn't. :)

[ventrical]

This.

@Ventrical: no disrespect, but you're confusing weston with wayland. Weston is the 'old carpet' thing. That's the default desktop shell, it's just a demo of what's possible (and to be honest, not a very impressive one). However, once people start getting creative with Wayland (the protocol), there's a whole load of possibilites. The maui project is quite an impressive desktop shell if you can get it working, see here: http://www.maui-project.org/



I have been searching around. Looked at a lot of info about wayland pros/cons vs MIR.. etc.. I can only speak for myself in that I tried to work wayland back when it first came out. I forget which actual machine , but that tells me that this project has been sleeping just a little too long (at least from my perspective). It takes a lot of time and resource to surf-pull info about a development release (especially Linux based) and then have to wait. To me that equals downtime, number 1 on Computer science DON'Ts! Wayland (even currently) presents downtime and I am not one to suffer downtime gladly and I assure you that there are many other who don't either.

And that just does not go for wayland but also a lot of other developers pet projects which create enormous amounts of downtime. When I see downtime created I usually am very vocal about it.

If MIR presents the same swing and sway with Danny Kaye type scenario then I'll drop it like a hot potato, however , bottom line , we got to move on. Really , we are beating a dead horse here with wayland. I mean if Fedora continues to maintain and develop it then more power to them.

Personally I have been at this since 1963 (first as a TV repair technician apprentice in my fathers shop) and my eyes are really sensitive from sitting in front of and working with so many different types of monitors. Unity has brought relief to a long standing RSI of my eyes :) I have become intolerant of static screens with banal backgrounds. Unity is my sidekick .. and I more or less have to go where Unity goes. But that does not mean that wayland cannot be a success for others. And so more power to them!! :)

[ventrical]

This.

http://www.maui-project.org/

I checked it out and the first thing that came to mind was .. "from freedom came elegance" and I can't even begin to describe to you the battles I had with Mint after Julia.

oh .. and no disrespect taken..

Regards,
Ventrical

[MG&TL]

I checked it out and the first thing that came to mind was .. "from freedom came elegance" and I can't even begin to describe to you the battles I had with Mint after Julia.

oh .. and no disrespect taken..

Regards,
Ventrical

Oh, I didn't mean the distribution, if and when that comes out. I just meant the desktop shell. :)

Cool, just checking. Can't be too careful with peoples' feelings over the internets.

[ventrical]

Oh, I didn't mean the distribution, if and when that comes out. I just meant the desktop shell. :)

Cool, just checking. Can't be too careful with peoples' feelings over the internets.


Anyone who develops software and puts it up for distribution should be well aware that it is going to get ripped apart from declaration of intergers to <EOF!! If developers are going to be sensitive about the various forms of critisism, the good, the bad and the ugly, then they should not be in development. Ubuntu (and most other software related) gets it mettle from U+1.

[MG&TL]

Anyone who develops software and puts it up for distribution should be well aware that it is going to get ripped apart from declaration of intergers to <EOF!! If developers are going to be sensitive about the various forms of critisism, the good, the bad and the ugly, then they should not be in development. Ubuntu (and most other software related) gets it mettle from U+1.

True. It's always a bit nicer releasing stuff if people are nice about it though. :)

[ventrical]

True. It's always a bit nicer releasing stuff if people are nice about it though. :)


Linux for Human Beings .... absolutely.