[Development] QtWayland future

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

Hi Pier!

First of all I’d like to strongly echo your thanks to Johan for his amazing work on QtWayland!

The module is important to us as well, and we’d like to see it continued. As of now we do not have a dedicated person to take over Johan's work, but this is something we’re looking to address. 

In the interim, Eskil will be our point of contact, as discussed here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/20#note_419952, and our graphics team, who has many people with Wayland experience, will follow up anything that comes up.

What are the things you see on the horizon for Qt 6?

Tor Arne

> On 25 Feb 2020, at 15:58, Pier Luigi Fiorini <pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The QtWayland module contains the Wayland platform abstraction and a nice library to make compositors using Qt and QtQuick.
> 
> QtWayland Compositor is being used by LG, Jolla, embedded projects and Liri.
> 
> The client part is an integral part of those projects and of course it's fundamental for using Qt applications on Linux/Wayland.
> 
> Unfortunately Johan Helsing is leaving The Qt Company.
> 
> He has done an amazing work and I want to thank him.
> 
> Johan was basically acting as the maintainer, for quite some time I haven't heard from Giulio.
> 
> I'm afraid that without him the project will quickly become stale, as it was for quite some time in the post-Nokia era.
> 
> There are several things to address for Qt 6.
> 
> What are the plans for this module?
> 
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