Window Managers under Wayland: libweston

One of the criticisms towards Wayland is the lack of a Window Manager concept. This to have an option of a different window manager behaviour/experience without needing to write a whole compositor as well. On LWN, daniels confirmed that it’ll become easier with time thanks to libweston.

Quoting daniels (first line/paragraph he’s quoting me):

> Not exactly sure what this allows, but I assume that most of the compositor logic is in this libweston, thereby reducing the complexity creating a different Wayland compositor.

Correct. The idea is to let people write window managers and desktop environments without having to worry about the details of DRM/KMS/GBM, EGL, dmabuf, the Wayland protocol itself, and whatever other plumbing. It’s not there yet, but hopefully in the next year or so it’ll become a really solid viable alternative.

Secret santa: GNOME

With a group of colleagues we held a secret santa. One of the rules specified to only list hobbies and likes; specific gift requests weren’t allowed. I wrote down: GNOME, Salsa, purple and travel. I assumed this list would be entirely useless and I’d rather have santa use their imagination. The picture explains all:

A pink GNOMEThe secret santa even included a poem with the request to send pictures of me and the gnome during my travels. Anyone remember the traveling gnome that we used to see on Planet GNOME?

Apparently Googling ‘GNOME’ doesn’t really explain what is meant with ‘GNOME’ 😛 Aside from above gnome I also got a ‘The best places to be today’ from Lonely Planet!! Also, look carefully at the picture.