redshift wayland support
by Dominique Martinet
Hi all.
I've joined the list at Dan's suggestion, as I will be maintaining
waypipe[1] now, and admittedly it could be useful for sway users, so why
not.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe
Looking at the SIG page[2] there is a wishlist item for "redshift with
wayland support", and as a big user myself I would be all for it.
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway
The problem is that upstream[3] has not been very active for a while -
merged one PR in 2019, but that aside pretty much nothing since 2018.
Frankly major DEs (gnome, KDE) incorporate the feature natively so users
of redshift on wayland will basically only ever be wlroots-based
compositors, so we shouldn't expect to get much help from anywhere on
this... I imagine the dev uses gnome as he wrote the gnome-clock
location helper redshift-gtk service files, so he's made the switch and
hasn't looked back much.
[3] https://github.com/jonls/redshift
The wayland support issue[4] suggests arch uses minus7's wayland
branch[5] but that would appear to still be AUR and they are in the same
situation as us (some coprs have it alongside older versions of sway but
nothing official).
I would suggest the way forward would be to try to discuss with jonls
and minus7 if an official fork could start somewhere; either minus7 tree
if he is willing to do it or I suppose I could (I also have vested
interest, I am also using the stdin remote control patches discussed on
this issue[6], so "just" wayland wouldn't be enough for me, and whoever
takes over would need to be willing to deal with at least accepting PRs
:))
[4] https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/55
[5] https://github.com/minus7/redshift/tree/wayland
[6] https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/690
So, what do you folks think? Worth a shot?
Cheers,
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Dominique
2 years, 8 months
sway 1.5 + wlroots 0.11 update
by Aleksei Bavshin
Hi all,
There are two PRs with wlroots and sway update:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wlroots/pull-request/10
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sway/pull-request/9
A few things we'd want to deal with before merging and building those:
1) Wlroots update breaks API/ABI and all dependent packages should be fixed and rebuilt.
1.a) I already contacted wayfire upstream in IRC and Ilia said that they are thinking to publish a new 0.5.0 release in <= 2 weeks.
Meanwhile I have a patch[2] (4 commits from git + meson.build update) which works right now. My testing was limited to starting wayfire with default config and clicking random buttons, but it looks like FreeBSD maintainer picked the same changes for their port.
I can send a PR with the patch but it's a wayfire maintainer's decision whether to accept it or wait until the new upstream release.
1.b) For phoc, there's a WIP merge request[1] with update to the latest wlroots API. It would be awesome if someone of phoc maintainers could test the patched build and contact the upstream regarding the status of the merge request.
For everyone's convenience, I prepared a copr repo with updated wlroots, sway, wayfire and phoc[3].
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Now onto less important stuff.
2) F31 module update.
Wlroots 0.11.0 requires wayland >= 1.18, but f31 has only 1.17.
The (draft) policy for modularity[4] states that 'The module maintainer MUST have explicit commit privileges to all packages included in the module stream'.
In essence that means we are not supposed to add `wayland` to the module. Also that means that if we don't convince wayland maintainer to update the package, we'll have to stop builds for f31.
3) F32 update.
Considering that
a) there are packages in f32 that would fail to install with sway module enabled,
b) users are mostly unaware that we have the module and will resort to unofficial coprs (as observed multiple times on /r/Fedora),
I'd like to see things updated in f32 non-modular. However with the involvement of other packages this might be troublesome.
Is there any interest in f32 updates from other Sway SIG members and Mobility SIG (phoc/phosh owners)?
[1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/-/merge_requests/153
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/alebastr/rpms/wayfire/c/adb25640
[3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/alebastr/sway-testing/
[4] https://sgallagh.fedorapeople.org/docs/modularity/modularity/policies/
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With best regards,
Aleksei Bavshin
3 years, 4 months
Re: Rebase of fmt to 7.0.0
by Dan Čermák
Hi list,
Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> writes:
> Hello all.
>
> Fmt package will be rebased in Rawhide from version 6.2.1 to 7.0.0 next
> week.
>
> This will include soversion bump from 6 to 7. All dependent packages
> must be rebuilt.
This affects us, at least waybar as far as I know depends on fmt.
Cheers,
Dan
3 years, 5 months