There ist wayland which should replace X11. And i read some articles about wayland. So i recognized, that, if X11 is gone, fvwm isn’t needed any longer…
So, why do i need wayland? And what is the Future of Fvwm, when the big Distributions think, they need Wayland, because many new Applications are based on Wayland, and X11 dies.
What are your (the developers of Fvwm) thoughts about this future? Should Linux really became a new Windows, where the graphical system is part of the system? Only one graphical interface, where i can only change the color of the background???
This is the way all window manager based on xlib will go
You don’t. As the wayland FAQ said
So from that point I think xorg will be shipped a long period of time with most distributions
There’re three possiblilities:
Someone starts to exchange xlib in FVWM. But this is a complete rewrite of FVWM …
Someone starts to developing a new FVWM based on the reference Compositor Weston and transfer the complete command structure into it. Or, what is better try to create a new structure of commands as discussed on the mailing lists for FVWM3 / google summer of code and write a conversion tool for FVWM2 configs if possible.
Use FVWM with X11 as long as possible xorg will be shipped with a distribution.
I can only speak for me and I think that most of us developers haven’t enough time to lift weights like that. I’ve discussed the second point with a friend of mine and it would a interest challange but without a good planing and enough manpower it is impossible/takes too long to develop a new FVWM based on Weston.
At the moment you have the same - one graphical system => X11. With the wayland architecture you have the same different graphical interfaces as now. See here. Ok not so many as on X but this will grow over the years.
