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Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports by quotemstr on Sunday August 24, 2014 @11:05PM (#8220408)
You're suggesting that compositor- and shell-specific plugin interfaces can replace X11's desktop protocols? I understand that X11's security issues had to be fixed: I just wish that the new system had preserved some of X11's support for heterogeneous environments and not relied on the extensibility of specific compositor implementations.
Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports by wtallis on Monday August 25, 2014 @12:07AM (#8220561)
Wayland tries to be a simpler and smaller system than X11. For it to specify equivalents to ICCCM and EWMH would be way beyond its scope. But there's nothing preventing such equivalents from being standardized; it just won't be part of Wayland, since Wayland also wants to target use cases where such things would be inapplicable. If there ends up being a proliferation of wayland implementations that support pluggable components, I think we'll definitely see some quick standardization of the necessary interfaces. But at the moment people are still working on successfully using one desktop environment at a time, so good support for the mashups will have to wait.