Hi,
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:32 PM, David Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I'd rather we waited until wayland sessions are feature equivalent with X.
Note this is in rawhide, early in the Fedora 24 devel cycle. If things don't
work out, going back isn't hard.
> Sweeping this under the carpet and then not providing users any way to get
> to something that
> works on their hardware.
We fall back to X in cases when we notice things aren't working, just
as we do for the login screen.
Remember we've been shipping the login screen on wayland for 2 releases now.
And we provide a config option to turn wayland off explicitly for
cases where users just want or need
to use X.
The login screen is fine, if it just comes up on your laptop display you can
still login, however the active desktop session is a different story.
You are enabling something that is known broken and removes features from users.
Desktop rotation doesn't work for starters. This is a pretty basic feature that
I know lots of people use. You've just enabled a regression by default for all of
these people. This isn't what rawhide is for. If someone reports the regression
in a bug will you revert this feature.
Maybe trialing GNOME on wayland as the default is premature but removing the option
on login to use GNOME on X is definitely. As such I respectfully ask you put that
option back in rawhide.
If you still disagree, I'll probably have to spend time I could spend working on
stuff, taking this through some Fedora process I haven't had to deal with.
Dave.