Re: [PATCH 9/9] gnu: Add weston.

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:

> Is this ok as a description? I don't think the term display server is
> commonly used for wayland compositors, so I left the synopsis.
>
>     (description "Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland
> compositor, and a useful compositor in its own right.
>
> A Wayland compositor allows applications to render to a shared offscreen
> buffer using opengles.  The compositor then culls the hidden parts and
> composes the final output.  A Wayland compositor is essentially a
> multiplexer to the KMS/DRM kernel devices.")

s/opengles/OpenGL ES/ and s/kernel/Linux kernel/ but otherwise it’s
perfect, thanks!  :-)

> I renamed xwayland to xorg-server-xwayland and added cairo-xcb to
> gtk.scm, xorg-server-xwayland to xorg.scm and weston to
> freedesktop.scm.

OK!

Ludo’.