Wayland is a next generation display manager that is hopefully the future for graphics in the Free Desktop. It provides an opportunity to avoid some of the historical baggage associated with X - and enable smoother and more flexible user experiences. In this talk i'll show of the status quo of various toolkits running on Wayland - including GTK+, Clutter, Mx and with a special guest appearance from Tiago Vignatti to show off the state of the QT port. We'll talk about what works and what doesn't and what application level programmers need to think about when porting their application to run under Wayland. In particular input is a field where X has lagged behind current technology - Tiago will show how the exemplary input architecture in Wayland can be exploited to create compelling modern user experiences.
Speakers: Rob Bradford