FS#38315 - [efl] Add wayland backend

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 30 December 2013, 03:26 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 17:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

While we can't enable the wayland-egl backends in EFL because that requires us to switch everything to GLES instead of the desktop OpenGL, we can enable the wayland-shm backends. All that's required is libxkbcommon and wayland, then add --enable-wayland to the configure switches.
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 17:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  efl 1.9.1
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 31 January 2014, 14:54 GMT
Just because we can doesn't mean we should. What's the actual use case here why you need it?
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 31 January 2014, 17:46 GMT
Use case is the same as the use case for the GTK Wayland backend, QT Wayland backend, etc; to run EFL apps on Wayland. It was decided on the dev-public mailing list a while back to enable the Wayland backends wherever feasible.

And yes, I have actually run EFL apps on Wayland without XWayland.

There is also a Wayland compositor inside E's X compositor, but that's less important.

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