I haven't seen much recently about the state of Wayland support for Cinnamon since the July blog post, in which they said they are “studying the pros and cons of Wayland.”
I don't understand why people aren't just getting started. Yeah, it's a large undertaking, but one that I think is necessary for Cinnamon.
Is there anything new since then, and if not, does anyone know why no one is just getting started?
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Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
It will probably take a couple years. Not a fast process at all.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
What are the user facing benefits? I'm not questioning you, I'm just curious about what I'm missing. The only thing I've heard of were TouchPad gestures.
Cubinho@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
better securiry and future upgrades are important aspects. X11 is more or less dead but Wayland has more potential.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
I remember back in early 2000s remote execution through SSH was a breeze even in slow connections when you had X11 on both ends, since it would send draw primitives across instead of bitmaps.
I assume that's still possible with Wayland, having a server and a client on different ends of a tunnel connection?
ChrisG@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
https://lemmy.world/post/8963745