Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12

An anonymous reader writes "GNOME 3.12 was going to have official Wayland support as one of its main features for the upcoming desktop release. The developers have now decided to delay the official Wayland support until at least GNOME 3.14 while the support found there will be shipped as a preview. Missing features like drag 'n' drop and clipboard support are still missing from GNOME's Wayland code, which made them decide another six months of development work is needed. Other GNOME 3.12 features are mentioned on the GNOME Wiki."

This is surprising

[jandrese]

Here I was thinking they were going to shove it in there all half baked and kind of broken like most of the other things Gnome 3 has replaced. I hope this isn't because Wayland is that bad, but rather because the Gnome team has learned some lessons about removing the stuff that works and putting in stuff that is not ready for prime time yet.

Bad options for users

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought Gnome was going to remove support for drag-n-drop and clipboard anyway. Those things are options in all other OSes, right? And they are too complicated and nobody uses them, right?

Re:This is surprising

[MrEricSir]

I hope this isn't because Wayland is that bad, but rather because the Gnome team has learned some lessons about removing the stuff that works and putting in stuff that is not ready for prime time yet.

At the risk of stating the obvious, prepare to have your hopes crushed.

The real reason for the delay

[Anonymous Coward]

for i in /usr/bin /usr/sbin ; do
"${i}" --version
done

systemd 208
+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ ... ...

and once it reaches wayland the output says

wayland 1.10
not yet depending on systemd

The real reason!

In other words...

[fahrbot-bot]

Wayland waylaid; now way late.