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Wayland Protocol 1.38 released (lists.freedesktop.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This full packed release comes with three new staging protocols:

system bell - allowing e.g. terminal emulators to hand off system bell alerts to the compositor for among other things accessibility purposes
fifo - for implementing first in first out surface content update behavior
commit timing - for adding time constraints to surface content update

Other than this, the presentation timing protocol protocol got a version minor bump describing how to deal with variable refresh rate.

Other protocols saw the regular clarifications and bug fixes, and some deprecated events is now properly indicated as such in the XML. Please see individual commits for details.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

we all have our most wanted missing features but if i'm being honest i don't see how session saving should take priority over e.g. rendering protocols

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What's wrong with rendering? It seems to have everything needed for most users. Driver issues don't exactly count here because they're not a part of Wayland. However session saving is very important for any work, especially office tasks. It's becoming critical now when all major DEs make Wayland the default.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with rendering?

Oh I dunno, maybe something with almost 700 comments? (HDR).

However session saving is very important for any work, especially office tasks. It’s becoming critical now when all major DEs make Wayland the default.

If apps don't want to save their state when they close there isn't much a window manager can do about that. The only part the window manager would be involved in is with positioning its window and that is hardly something very critical to the functionality of an app.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Ok this is a legit point. I actually forgot about HDR. But in my personal opinion session saving is still more important.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Variable refresh rates. HDR. Colour management.

...for starters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hm? Wayland has VRR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The new protocols just announced are to support it. It's a work in progress.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As I already said, I forgot about HDR (and all the other mentioned stuff). The other features are a bit less important for non professional use cases.