On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:20:20AM +0000, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > Hi > > I want to suggest that we enable wayland by default. In current state > having some parts of wayland in ports is basically useless the > end-users themselves re-build gtk30 and mesa-libs with wayland > enabled. > > libwayland-egl.so from mesa-libs and the extra libraries and headers > from gtk30 adds like a few KB, a drop in the ocean compared to xorg > packages. (might be something more that I missed) > > Personally I see no reason not to make it default on, even with > flavors coming up. For any Desktop user (as well as embedded devices > like IVI-systems and whatnot), Wayland is the future. There's no > escaping that. > > Wayland has been quite usable on FreeBSD for over a year now but > access to it is limited due to the extra efforts required to use it. > > If we are to compare with the other guys, several Linux distros are > already switching to wayland-based compositors as default window > server. > > What do you think? >
I agree on that, we should activate wayland everywhere by defualt, as it does not prevent at all from having a fully fonctionnal regular X working as well. All wayland option should be on, and this as nothing to do with flavors :) Please do it :) Best regards, Bapt
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