The developers of the KDE desktop environment want step-by-step the Wayland window manager support. In 2012, the KDE interface according to the new plans on the likely successor of X.org Server should run.
The Wayland project is still far from complete, but it must according to the developers long-term solution for a number of weak points of the X.org Server, window manager, such as the slow pace of development of X11 and a legacy architecture which, among other advanced compositing features may be missing. Under other Ubuntu-developer Canonical and Fedora have support for the Wayland-displayserver in future Linux versions promised, while Intel is considering to Wayland to start using it for Touch UX 1.3.
Now, KDE can that list be added: at the Desktop Summit in Berlin, KDE developer Martin Gräßlin indicated that they also have the Wayland Display Server to apply it, reports Phoronix. This must be step-by-step are going to happen: a working group under the name “KWin Lighthouse project’ the KDE code to adapt for the lightweight Wayland. In the summer of 2012 would be the planned KDE 4.9-release should run on the new window manager. The following period, there must be particular to the stability of the area to be worked.
Gräßlin warned the Wayland developers in order not to make the same mistakes that with the introduction of the audiodeamon PulseAudio on the Linux platform only few years ago. By a large number of bugs that only with difficulty were disposed of, gave PulseAudio for many users the necessary headache. Furthermore, it is still waiting for sufficient driversupport from, among others Nvidia and ATI in OpenGL-based window manager useful.