Wayland support

> I'm curious as to whether Ubuntu's recent decision to switch to Wayland
> by default will be upheld in Trisquel. Personally, I'm all in favor of
> moving away from X and its myriad problems soon but not yet. I tend to
> agree with the statements made by Fedora team members that it'll be the
> right move eventually, but it's not there yet.

I don't know about the "myriad problems" with X, most of the problems
which I know apply only to old programs (which won't be fixed by
Wayland), old X server or drivers (which also won't be fixed by Wayland).

X has useful features like support for clients on different machines or
not requiring 2d or 3d hardware acceleration. Will such things work
with Wayland?

> Works with free video drivers like nouveau.

X works with Nouveau, but also with Radeon (which has KMS disabled in
Trisquel since it requires non-free firmware) or drivers without KMS
support.

> Needs nasty OSX-style nested X server for backwards compatibility.
> There'd be a lot of pressure not to write Wayland-native apps as long as
> other distros refused to switch.

There are already good reasons to use GTK+, Qt or something similar, so
no changes in typical properly written applications should be needed.

> I'm curious as to whether Ubuntu's recent decision to switch to
> Wayland by default will be upheld in Trisquel.

IIRC it requires 3D acceleration. If that's true we will not switch.
And if it works without it, we will probably pass anyway.