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By Matthias

Just to be clear: I do not speak for the GNOME foundation, and what you are citing here are internal discussions of the release team.

Few minutes ago in GNOME’s Mailing Lists by Matthias.

Hi, just to give you a heads-up: I want to propose that we should make GNOME work on Wayland.

We (me, Owen, Jasper and some others) met with krh last week and talked about this idea at some length. I’ve put the resulting information on the wiki here: https://live.gnome.org/Wayland

So far, we’ve silently assumed that Wayland is the future display system on Linux, and that we will get to using it eventually. This hackfest proposal from last year shows that we’ve been eyeing this direction for a while: https://live.gnome.org/ Hackfests/WaylandHackfest2012 (even if it didn’t happen at that time). The recent Mir announcement makes it a bit more urgent that we put our weight behind Wayland and help it reach its full potential. Doing this also fits our mandate from last Guadec to set stronger technical directions.

“Gnome on Wayland” is a bit too big for getting it done in one cycle, which is why I want to propose that we aim for doing it in two cycles - by the fall, have gnome-shell optionally work as a Wayland compositor, and have the gtk backend substantially complete - by next spring, have a complete port of all desktop functionality. Making applications run natively can happen independently at its own speed - we will support X clients transparently.

Let me know what you think