Wayland Gtk, KDE
HI,
still teased, waiting for the tablet, I'd like to add to the wishlist the ability, especially for the tablet, to run gtk and kde native programs, boosting tremendously the software availability. For me a full functional tablet should provide programs like texmacs (and other TeX), Libreoffice, Gnumeric, R statistics, and many others.
It seems that Fedora is on the way completing the needed work to port Wayland (see link) and it is also known that under Debian Wayland is already well functional.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/01/19/gnome-wayland-porting-the-endgame/
Being able to run Gtk3 based applications, with the default theme Adwaita, would be great. Jolla is GNU/Linux (contrary to Android, which is Android/Linux) , it could be used as full computer.
What I would like, is just the necessary libraries as foundation (Glib, Gtk and Gtkmm). Most other stuff is anyway installed and we don't need the full desktop and not application support (no Silica based theme, no Silica integration, no app store support).
hoschi ( 2015-07-30 21:52:13 +0200 )editwell, reading some more, it looks like the only needed piece of software is xwayland; maybe not that impossible to compile for an intel arch Jolla
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
gfwp ( 2015-07-30 22:10:57 +0200 )edit