This week I decided to do some research for the Wayland porting of the KDE Plasma workspaces. One of the features we will need in future is a Wayland session compositor which runs nested on a Wayland system compositor.

Support for sub-surfaces has been merged into mainline Wayland after the protocol work and other changes for this exciting new feature has been in development for several months. Sub-surfaces by itself isn't too exciting to end-users but will benefit application developers in enhancing the Wayland-powered Linux desktop.

An extensive list of plans for the Wayland/Weston 1.2 release were shared by the project's founder, Kristian Høgsberg.

The lightweight GTK-based WebKit-powered Midori web-browser should now be running natively on Wayland.

in casa KDE c’è aria di cambiamento, e stando a quanto Martin Gräßlin conferma in un suo post, la scelta degli sviluppatori dell’ambiente plasma-based è ricaduta su Wayland

One week after a desktop developer meet-up, the lead developer of the KWin window manager, Martin Gräßlin, has written about the history of using KDE/KWin on the Wayland Display Server.

Kristian Høgsberg has clarified the scope and goals of Weston, Wayland's reference compositor. Now that Weston has become somewhat of its own desktop environment, Kristian has clarified its intentions to benefit future patches.

Wayland client support in Enlightenment: It is now possible to run wayland client applications inside of Enlightenment. Support has been added for moving, resizing, maximizing, and closing wayland client applications. Support has also been added for popup menus too.

The first post-1.0 release of the Wayland Display Server protocol and the Weston reference compositor implementation has been released.

Come rendere ancora più popolare una piattaforma che dalla sua ha già milioni e milioni di sviluppatori? Semplice: renderla in qualche modo compatibile con un nuovo standard che accoglie le grida di gioia di tantissimi. È così che sono stati resi disponibili dei binding di Node.js per Wayland.