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starting on Wayland development

Do you wanna contribute to a funky open-source project? Are you tired of your nerdy and boring community of developers? Are you the one that wants to get rid of X because it’s a giant, old and fat dinosaur in your system? :) Cool, I have a project to solve your problems! While there’s still lot of churn in the protocol, and yet our goal is soon to wrap up all we’ve been doing to a steady and settle-on-the-stone one description, there’s a lot on the implementation side that needs love.

Qt on wayland: howto

To run Qt applications on Wayland is fairly simple nowadays. Thank to Qt developers, they are following up quite well our last changes on Wayland protocol and updating accordingly on Qt5 code base – by the way, the fresh and just released Qt 4.8 does not ship the latest protocol additions, so that’s not the one I’m referring. So, today I’ve set up the last bits of Qt environment on my Intel Pine-Trail pretty easy (yeah, I compile on my tablet :-O).

X characterization for MeeGo

Actually this is not a big news but it’s nice to see on practice X being used on the advanced age :) Here I’ve played with some UI configuration settings, browsed for while, toyed with facebook, opened some photos in the viewer and etc, all for about 5 minutes: x-meego-Apr2011 and zooming in the X11 core slice we have: x-meego-x11only-Apr2011 Moral of the story: as showed on the last figure, most of the traffic from the core protocol is related with window management, window state changes and notifications of positioning for clients.

X Census (for 1.10)

Following is the census of 1.10 window for all X infrastructure - raw numbers here. I did it in a similar way as the previous version. Worth to mention that there’s almost no relation between the cycles of development from each of the components listed below, which can lead to some misunderstanding. Anyway, still a nice indicative to see and evaluate how the free desktop community behaved. Numbers for X implementation (xserver, proto, lib and xcb repositories):

X.Org Foundation elections

I am a candidate for the elections 2011 of the board of directors :) Following are my answers based on the questionnaire formulated by the members. You can check other candidates answers here. 1) In the last year, the membership gained a lot more insight in the activities of the board. What is your opinion on this new-gained transparency? Do you** see options for improvement?** What happened in the recent past when people started to demand logs and open meetings from X.