10 days later

Lucien_Lachance Strobl he never sugarcoats: "Once this is merged, popovers will stop working under the X11 environment. Quite likely, more stuff will be broke as well. "

That whole pull request details the uphill challenges that crew (ebon, serebit, etc) are going to run into but they are moving forward putting out one fire at a time. Its amazing over at Buddies.

    7 days later
    3 months later

    Lucien_Lachance the disclaimer for that legendary 2021 post was necessary. that was long ago and an entirely different situation. it's cool he left it up.

      2 months later

      a deep read of both dispatches for budgie lovers:

      "for some reason the generated client headers and public code from ecm_add_wayland_client_protocol weren't being discovered properly during the build phase. I still haven't figured out what the hell is doing on with that and figured "screw it", I'll continue some refactoring and have my classes inherit from generated QtWayland::CLASS interfaces from QtWaylandScanner. I wasn't originally going to, at least after feeling so defeated yesterday, but after some tinkering toSo not quite the route I was expecting to already be doing down before even making the damn thing a public repo, but I know I will be much prouder of the work once it is all said and done!day I very quickly realized how much cleaner the code will be by leveraging the generated interfaces...

      ..Plan for tomorrow is to go through the rest of my code where I was using WaylandOutputManager and swap them over to the orchestrator, then hook up some signals / slots that I set up today as I was working on the classes. After all, that's the reason I shifted it to being a Qt application instead of a generic C++ one at all -- the Qt event loop and signals / slots make callbacks much easier! Will be interesting to see if this thing flies when all is said and done 🙂"

      **Wayland to Budgie the old fashioned way: pure grit and determination by a strobl with his sleeves rolled up. gotta love it.

      @WetGeek
      "Today I wanted to spend some time making sure I wasn't getting too into the weeds and unintentionally overcomplicating some of my classes and inheritance from QtWayland. It was recommended that I take a look at Plasma Desktop's compositor KWin, as it is written in C++ and leverages QtWayland."

      that was today's dispatch. interesting. KDE's Kwin holds a puzzle piece. I miss that guy around here but I know he is on his own path. have to imagine as most DE's are incorporating inclusion of Wayland that he just wants to move foward.
      Blows my mind that Budgie only existed as Solus flagship, now I see a list of what Distro's it's involved with and it's astounding. I tried Budgie in OpenMandriva's "unofficial spin" dept (forgot name) and it is my second favorite. I digress. And am sentimental, apparently 🙂