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2013-07-14
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2013-07-14
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I doubt many applications are using X directly. Most are using frameworks and libraries (Qt, EGL and etc.). So they can be rebuilt for Wayland easily.
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Sure, but that's the issue. As Qt4 does not really work with Wayland, having no XWayland means no Qt4 on Sailfish.
Therefore all the Qt4 applications already running on Nemo mobile, Fremantle and Harmattan will need to be converted to Qt5 to run on Sailfish.
Another issue is Python bindings. The PySide bindings that are already available for Nemo currently do not support Qt5 at all (Sfiet Konstantin said he will look into it, so let's hope for the better ).
The alternative PyQt Python bindings do support Qt5, but currently don't support QtQuick at all, but it hopefully will in the future. Another potential issue with PyQt is, that it is GPL only, meaning your application has to be GPL when using it. PySide is LGPL, meaning applications using it don't have to be GPL. Also unlike PySide, there are not yet any PyQt packages in Mer/Nemo.
All in all, another issue might be with backporting Sailfish stuff to Harmattan and Fremantle - unless we can get Qt5 running on them, then backports might not be possible at all. And it is unlikely many developers will want to maintain a Qt4 only version once converting they application to Qt5.
So that's my "analysis" of possible issues with Sailfish using Wayland only.
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2013-07-14
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Jolla is going to use Wayland from the start. Exciting news: https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/356034168351756290
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2013-07-14
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Last edited by shmerl; 2013-07-14 at 05:52.