Re: [Lxde-list] Suggestions for Wayland support with LXDE and getting a Window Manager

[PCMan <pcm...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Johnny Faraone <Joh...@ma...> wrote:
> I propose several ideas for Wayland support:
>
> 1.) Fork KWin for Wayland and make it less dependent on all those loads upon
> loads of KDE Libraries and bloat that is unnecessary to make the Window
> Manager work.

The developer of Kwin is doing this himself.

> 2.) Port EggWM which is coded in QT to Wayland:
> http://code.google.com/p/eggwm/

In wayland, there is no concept of window manager. A WM is not needed.
We only need compositors.

> 3.) Use Weston as the Window Manager and throw in a few tweaks
it's a compositor, not a window manager.

> 4.) Create a new LXDE Window Manager
> 5.) Don't use QT anymore, scrap most of whats been done, port WYODesktop
> (http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/) to wayland and built up a wxwindows
> based DE.

The unix port of wxwindows is based on GTK+ 2. It's not really
something that can replace Qt. Don't waste your time on this.

> Even though 5 sounds like the least likely as there has already been lots of
> work to port lxde to QT, it still seems like a viable option if someone can
> port over wyodesktop.
> Anyways I hope my input can help in some way.
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