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Wayland update? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Maimas2@lemmy.world to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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I haven't seen much recently about the state of Wayland support for Cinnamon since the July blog post, in which they said they are “studying the pros and cons of Wayland.”

I don't understand why people aren't just getting started. Yeah, it's a large undertaking, but one that I think is necessary for Cinnamon.

Is there anything new since then, and if not, does anyone know why no one is just getting started?

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[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It will probably take a couple years. Not a fast process at all.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the user facing benefits? I'm not questioning you, I'm just curious about what I'm missing. The only thing I've heard of were TouchPad gestures.

[–] Cubinho@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

better securiry and future upgrades are important aspects. X11 is more or less dead but Wayland has more potential.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I remember back in early 2000s remote execution through SSH was a breeze even in slow connections when you had X11 on both ends, since it would send draw primitives across instead of bitmaps.

I assume that's still possible with Wayland, having a server and a client on different ends of a tunnel connection?

[–] ChrisG@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

https://lemmy.world/post/8963745