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| ===== Overall Plans ===== | ===== Overall Plans ===== |
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| For Xfce 4.20, the plan is, to add preliminary support to Wayland to core components without losing X11 support. This doesn't mean that by the next major release an Xfce session on Wayland will offer all existing features, but we hope it will be minimally usable. We also intend to continue refining our applications to work acceptably on Wayland (those that already work or can be made to work with low effort). | For Xfce 4.20, the plan was to add preliminary support to Wayland to core components without losing X11 support. This doesn't mean that by the next major release an Xfce session on Wayland will offer all existing features, but we hope it will be minimally usable. We also intend to continue refining our applications to work acceptably on Wayland (those that already work or can be made to work with low effort). |
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| | For Xfce 4.22, the stabilization work continues. Reaching X11 feature parity is not yet our target. |
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| Check the table in the [[#component specific status]] section for details and labelled issues by group: | Check the table in the [[#component specific status]] section for details and labelled issues by group: |
| | xfburn | yes | | | | xfburn | yes | | |
| | parole | yes | player window is not embedded ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole/-/issues/134|parole#134]]), no systray icon ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole/-/issues/126|parole#126]]) | | | parole | yes | player window is not embedded ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole/-/issues/134|parole#134]]), no systray icon ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole/-/issues/126|parole#126]]) | |
| | [[#xfce4-screenshooter]] | yes | partial, see below | | | [[#xfce4-screenshooter]] | yes | Active Window not supported | |
| | xfce4-screensaver | no | Port to Wayland is essentially done [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/-/merge_requests/28|xfce4-screensaver!28]] \\ But this requires [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/kelnos/libwlembed|libwlembed]], which is still experimental and has no release at this stage (2024-02-04) | | | xfce4-screensaver | no | Port to Wayland is essentially done [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/-/merge_requests/28|xfce4-screensaver!28]] \\ But this requires [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/kelnos/libwlembed|libwlembed]], which is still experimental and has no release at this stage (2024-02-04) | |
| | xfmpc | yes | | | | xfmpc | yes | | |
| === xfce4-screenshooter === | === xfce4-screenshooter === |
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| Originally Wayland wasn't meant to have protocols allowing screenshots ([[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/32|see here]]), but that changed with [[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/4545|new protocols]]. As the capturing protocols were in development, we added screenshooting support using wlroots' [[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlr-protocols/-/blob/master/unstable/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1.xml|screencopy protocol]] because that's probably what our compositor will based on. It's very likely that ''wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1'' support will be dropped in favor of exclusively ''ext-image-capture-source-v1'' and ''ext-image-copy-capture-v1''. | Entire Screen screenshot was initially [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/-/merge_requests/52|implemented]] using wlroots' [[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlr-protocols/-/blob/master/unstable/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1.xml|screencopy protocol]]. Eventually support for ''ext-image-capture-source-v1'' and ''ext-image-copy-capture-v1'' was added. It's very likely that ''wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1'' (fallback) support will be dropped in the future. |
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| At the moment only Entire Screen screenshots are supported ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/-/merge_requests/52|xfce4-screenshooter!52]]), Rectangle Selection will be implemented next but Active Window is going to be much trickier, perhaps we'll need a custom protocol for our compositor to take care of that. | Rectangle Selection was [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/-/merge_requests/80|implemented]] using gtk-layer-shell (''wlr_layer_shell_v1''). Active Window isn't possible with current protocols, perhaps we'll need a custom protocol for our compositor to take care of that. |
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| If we want to support compositors that don't implement the protocols mentioned above, we have to add DBus Support for [[https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal|org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot]]. This however is not planned and it's unlikely we'll ever fully support other compositors. | Compositors that don't implement the protocols mentioned above will not be supported. |
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