[gentoo-soc] Wayland on Gentoo

[wiktor w brodlo]

Hi,

Following the discussion on #gentoo-soc, my Wayland on Gentoo proposal
is now finalised (subject to more comments).

Here's the link:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/wiktor/30003

Abstract

As Wayland is slowly reaching a usable status and packages (Kwin, GTK,
...) are being ported to Wayland, other distros, like Ubuntu and
Fedora, have announced that they're planning to support Wayland when
it becomes stable. This project will attempt to bring Wayland to
Gentoo to enable our beloved distro stay cutting-edge and ahead of the
game. Since Wayland 0.85.0 has been released in February this year,
and a few packages, like GTK 3.2, are already available to test the
new system, this is the perfect moment to start bringing Wayland to
Gentoo. This will benefit Gentoo, as we'll be able to iron out most
problems before the stable release and the Wayland project itself, as
Gentoo users and developers will be able to test it.

Basically, the problem will involve getting Wayland to run on Gentoo
(a simple ebuild is already available for that), then get X support
working on Wayland on Gentoo. Afterwards, I will add Wayland support
to Enlightenment's core presentation libraries, Qt, Clutter and GTK on
Gentoo. The upstream of these packages already claim they have at
least some Wayland support. With the major toolkits running on
Wayland, any program written on top of them should work, and if not,
it should work through X support. At the end I will attempt getting
KDE running on Wayland (as they claim that their Kwin can manage
Wayland windows).

One of the more important points is documentation, I will keep a
detailed record of all I do, and write a report at the end, to help
Wayland, toolkit, and application developers getting Wayland stable,
and whoever else wanting to integrate Wayland in the future. This will
also benefit Gentoo as it will make us early adopters.

Yours,
~wiktor.