Wayland support?

[Newbytee]

Are there plans/considerations to implement this as a Wayland compositor (could be done using, for example, wlroots) and/or port the utility applications to native Wayland?

[trunkmaster]

Nice question and nice point about wlroots! Sure I consider using Wayland in the future.
Some actions were already taken by GNUstep project down this way.

I hope I reach that point where Wayland support will go into my current TODO list...
Do you have some ideas, code prototype I can look into? I'm not familiar with Wayland yet...

[alexmyczko]

GNUstep does have a Wayland backend.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=wayland&submit=Search%21&idxname=gnustep-dev&max=20&result=normal&sort=score

[Newbytee]

I hope I reach that point where Wayland support will go into my current TODO list...
Do you have some ideas, code prototype I can look into? I'm not familiar with Wayland yet...

You could look into Weston, the reference implementation of Wayland: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/

There's also this introduction using wlroots to write Wayland compositors (however, somewhat outdated): https://drewdevault.com/2018/02/17/Writing-a-Wayland-compositor-1.html

Continuing the route of wlroots, there's tinywl: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/tinywl

[alexmyczko]

it already exists!!! gnustep/libs-back@696ab63#diff-659b64781af0473e6aa3f84a89e9ef8eR760

[andyarvanitis]

Looks like they have merged Wayland changes into master recently (though it looks like it's a WIP): gnustep/libs-back#17

[zeroheure]

It is far from being ready. Code was merged "as is", in the hope that someone will take it and push it further.