Rasterman

The story of Enlightenment, EFL, Tizen & Wayland

This will cover, from a high level, what Wayland is, how it is theoretically better than X11 (and why you should not expect massive speedups compared to a well tuned X11 world), why Wayland is good, what was involved in preparing a move to Wayland, some of the issues, and issues still yet to be resolved.

As Tizen has been on the path to Wayland for some time, Enlightenment has of course adapted and become a complete Wayland compositor as of version 0.20. So not only has a WM had to move, but a toolkit and a whole platform as well.

This should provide some insight on Wayland, what is needed to port to it and why it should exist and be used at all.

This talk will cover the current status of Enlightenment, its features, what it’s missing, what its strengths and weaknesses are. It will also cover the direction of EFL, where it is at now and going in the future and how this relates to Enlightenment.

Enlightenment 0.17 was finally released on December 21 2012. This finally marks a return from focusing on libraries only to continuing windowmanager and desktop and applications. Enlightenment covers much more than just a window manager now, and it will be useful for the desktop users and community to know how much more and why. This will cover the current status of Enlightenment, it's features, what it's missing, what it's strengths and weaknesses are. It will also cover the direction of EFL, where it is at now and going in the future and how this relates to Enlightenment.