Re: xfwm4-wayland (xfway) is being ported to wlroots
I have two repos, xfwm4 and xfway. The xfway repo is now extremely outdated and I’m not sure what to do. I could copy the xfwm4 repo over to the xfway repo, but the histories are completely different. I might end up having to completely rewrite the history of the xfway repo. Also I might want the two repos to diverge in some ways but still keep up with the changes from the other one. I ended up with two repos because I’m not sure if I want this to be an independent project or an official part of Xfce. Regards adlo > On 16 Jul 2022, at 00:01, Alex wrote: > > Hi Adlo, > > great to hear so, sounds promising ! > > I have currently trouble to build it (sent you a pm). When the build > runs fine for me, I'll give it a spin. > > When you succeed in bringing the project into a good shape, and after > some testing, I suppose it would make sense to host it on > https://gitlab.xfce.org/ (if non of the core devs puts a veto) > > Cheers, Alex > >> Am 15.07.22 um 06:54 schrieb adlo: >> I am currently porting xfwm4-wayland (xfway) to wlroots. It is based on >> Ariadne's Hopalong compositor. >> >> I have also ported xfwm4's build system to Meson. >> >> At the moment there are feature regressions compared to the libweston >> version. >> >> You can build it with meson. >> >> https://github.com/adlocode/xfwm4/tree/wlroots >> >> Regards >> >> adlo >> ___ >> Xfce4-dev mailing list >> xfce4-...@xfce.org >> https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev > > > ___ > Xfce4-dev mailing list > xfce4-...@xfce.org > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev
Fwd: xfway: added support for alt-tab switcher
Begin forwarded message: > From: adlo > Date: 17 July 2022 at 02:54:11 BST > To: Xfce development list > Subject: Re: xfway: added support for alt-tab switcher > > >> >> On 15 Jan 2022, at 14:02, Alex wrote: >> >> Hi adlo, >> >> Interesting ! What are your further plans with it ? >> >> You plan to dump the remaining X11 code ? Or do you plan to support >> both, X11 and wayland sessions ? > > I think I plan to support both X11 and Wayland, though I haven’t actually > tested that the X11 code still works. > >> You want to rename the project to xfway ? (keeping "xfwm4" as name would >> be confusing if it is going to be a wayland-only compositor) > > I’m not sure if I want it to be an independent project or an actual port of > xfwm4 to Wayland that’s officially part of xfce, so if it’s an independent > project it will be called xfway and if it’s an official part of xfce it would > be called xfwm4. > > ofourdan favours the libmutter route. The advantage is that it would be a > familiar ecosystem, as there is already a good relationship between the xfce > and GNOME communities. However, this would mean that xfce4-panel and > xfdesktop would have to be integrated into the compositor and they would no > longer be separate components. > > I keep wondering whether it would be better to use libmutter, but I don’t > think I would be interested in developing a highly integrated desktop > environment. > > As a result of being unsure which library I should use, I’m not sure whether > I want this to be an official part of Xfce or an independent project. > > > Regards > adlo
