On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:

>
>
> *Questions and discussion*
>

>    -
>    - Wayland is a tricky sell - it is unlikely that distributions will
>    switch to it by default for this release, and there are some missing bits
>    and pieces.
>
> +1, Actually think we should be (very) careful with having Wayland as a
selling point, right now at least. This fedora mailning list thread provide
some interesting insights [1], and [2] ("pending section"), which I guess
motivates why fedora choosed not to enable Wayland by default for its next
release .

1
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop%40lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KL4TW7D263BL56HO7RGEODSYFRSTISYX/
2 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features


>
>    -
>    - XDG app isn't particularly a user facing feature at this stage. The
>    most relevant new feature is the availability of nightly apps [1]. However,
>    these nightly builds don't get much attention, and they require the command
>    line to install, so are somewhat technical. In general I don't like selling
>    user features if they require a terminal!
>
> +1, understand this project is (still) in a very early stage.

-- 
-mvh Oliver Propst
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