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Re: [trinity-users] What about Mir and Wayland future support?

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:24:07 -0500
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> Hi,
>
> Looks like X11 is will come to the end of its life in the next few years,
> while Ubuntu talks of Mir and there is also Wayland. Will it be possible
> to adapt TDE and TQt3 for these new graphic frameworks?
>
> Here is some links on it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_%28software%29
> http://www.zdnet.com/mark-shuttleworth-mir-has-delivered-what-we-hoped-7000017897/
> http://beta.slashdot.org/story/186653
>
> -Alexandre

This will be very difficult.  I have been aware of Wayland for some time
but I don't think X11 is truly coming to the end of its life anytime soon.

When the time does come we would need to write a new backend renderer
(probably targetting Cairo), then rewrite large chunks of TQt3, tdelibs,
and tdebase at minimum.  This is not possible with our current manpower.

Tim
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