Rob Bradford

Last year saw the much anticipated release of Wayland 1.0; a display system designed for the modern era. In this presentation i'll give a high level overview of what Wayland is, why you should be excited about it and explain what this means for application developers.

The target audience for this talk is toolkit developers and application authors working in both the desktop and embedded spaces.

This talk is aimed at developers porting toolkits to run on Wayland. It will include an overview of some of the lessons learnt from porting various toolkits over to Wayland and provide an opportunity for developers to raise questions.

Other people: Kristian Høgsberg

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.