Re: Gambas and Wayland

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 31/07/2025 à 04:44, Dimitris Anogiatis a écrit :
> I understand the concerns regarding censorship and/or loss of privacy 
> and proprietary software creep-in to F/LOSS projects. However if Gambas 
> does not at the very least support Wayland it runs the danger of 
> becoming... unfortunately... obsolete.

That is the point: if Wayland was correctly designed, Gambas should not 
care about the graphical system it runs on.

Instead, most of GUI softwares are more or less broken, which you name 
"becoming obsolete".

> Are projects like wayback or xwayland something that Gambas Apps can 
> work with and, perhaps, integrate in order for the produced apps to work 
> on a wayland session without too much modification?

All GUI programs can run on xwayland, but xwayland is not a 100% 
equivalent of X11, because of Wayland. In other words, Gambas programs 
run with xwayland, they are just far less broken than when running 
directly with wayland, but still a bit broken.

As for wayback, it's mostly a fullscreen xwayland... But then, what's 
the point of Wayland? What does it brings exactly, beside HDR support? 
If HDR support is added to X11, why not just using X11 directly?

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini.