Re: synaptics vs libinput and GNOME 3.20 no longer supporting synaptics
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 at 12:52:08 +0200, 殷啟聰 wrote:
> Probably making Wayland the default GNOME session is the simplest (but
> impractical, probably) solution to this?
I think GNOME 3.20 on Wayland still has too many "papercuts" to be
something we can support as a long-term default. I'm using it myself,
and I've been fixing some of them (mainly those that have an impact on
gnome-terminal), but others are more involved and are beyond my ability
to fix.
Many of the remaining issues with Wayland are not things we can
realistically fix downstream, because they need new protocol development
that has to be coordinated with Wayland and/or GNOME upstream developers
(depending whether it's a standardized protocol or something that can
reasonably be GNOME-specific).
GNOME 3.22 will be released before squeeze freezes, and will hopefully do
Wayland better (each GNOME 3 release so far has done Wayland significantly
better than the last). The Fedora developers are aiming to default
to Wayland for their release that uses GNOME 3.22 - but I'm not sure
how much weight to put on that, because they've been hoping to default
to Wayland for several Fedora releases now, and so far they've always
decided closer to their release that it wasn't ready.
If you test GNOME Shell on Wayland, please usertag your bug reports
to appear in
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=wayland>
so we can keep track of how numerous and severe the issues are.
S
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