Hey, On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 06:17:37PM -0000, Darxus wrote: > Fred: I think you misunderstand. > > I don't think Iain is saying this can't be fixed. Somebody please > correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like the solution which > would make Iain happy, and not cause any problems for anybody else, > would be if GTK+ built its Wayland backend into a separate dynamically > loadable library, and loaded it at run time. So that a GTK+ package > could be installed and run (at all, under X), without the absolute > necessity of installing a Wayland package just to get GTK+ to run (at > all, under X). > > Iain, can you confirm I understand this, so I can at least open a bug > against GTK+ requesting it? Is there anything else that would be > needed? This has been a pretty frustrating process. Thanks for trying.
That is right. I'm sorry that I didn't know the architecture of the backends in advance so that I could have told you sooner. You could open a bug requesting this, but I'm not sure how fundamental the architectural decisions go — it might be best to ask on gtk-devel-list. The problem is that GTK+ is such a core library that it really is out of the question to have it pull in wayland when we're not using it by default. I hope you understand this. I looked into it today in good faith attempting to see if it would be possible to enable it per this request. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ [email protected] ] Debian Developer [ [email protected] ] Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954352 Title: Enable wayland backend To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/954352/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
