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Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We met project lead David "Fossfreedom" Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane from the Ubuntu Budgie team in Rīga, and they passed on news of a rift – and indeed possible divorce – between Budgie and Enlightenment… and it's caused by Wayland.

While Enlightenment does have some Wayland support, in the project's own words this is "still considered experimental and not for regular end users."

Thus, the Budgie team has been evaluating options to move forward. XFCE are doing some really great work in this area with libxfce4windowing – a compatibility layer bridging Wayland and X11, allowing the move in a logical direction without needing a big-bang approach. To date, most of the current codebase has already been reworked and is ready for a Wayland-only approach without impacting further development and enhancements.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you're bored, a fun activity is to show the headline (and sub-header) to a non-Linux person and watch their face lol.

Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland

Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

Tbf I am a Linux person and was still scratching my head somewhat.

[–] dinckelman 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I still wish the Solus team all the success, but this has genuinely been exhausting. First they plan a switch to Qt6, then abandon it for GTK. Then that became too opinionated, so they switched plans for Enlightment and their stack. I’d rather see them commit to something, and just finish it, but Josh doesn’t like to do business like that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

why is there a bird

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

budgie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bird runs Ubuntu?

[–] fhein 1 points 10 months ago

Ubuntu runs the bird.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

We still glossing over that there is no color management? https://arewewaylandyet.com/

(I need Displaylink too)