Graphics: Weston 12.0 and X.Org Foundation Board of Directors
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Weston 12.0: Highlights and changes for Wayland's reference compositor
Last week, on May 17, Weston 12.0 was released. Here's a look at some of the changes that have landed in this new version.
In terms of features we have two new backends, support for multiple scanout devices, and have added a couple of new protocol implementations. Alongside these features, we also have been adding multiple fixes and internal changes that would further facilitate integration of functionality like color management or the ability to load up multiple backends at the same time.
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Some further improvements towards multi-head support has been added to the backend-rdp, while backend-headless now makes use of output decorations as to be able to test out the color-lcms plugin. Resizing of windows is now possible for the nested, backend-wayland.
A short-form for loading backends, shells, and renderers has been added, while still supporting the older command invocation. For instance, for the headless backend we can load it with "--backend=headless", for desktop shell, we can load it with "--shell=desktop" while specifying the pixman renderer can now be done with "--renderer=pixman".
With this release, the color-lcms plugin has seen various improvements in color transformation precision and performance.
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Weston 12.0: Highlights and changes for Wayland's reference compositor
Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad looks at the Weston 12.0 release. Weston is the reference compositor for the Wayland project. The highlights include two new backends and support for multiple scanout devices, along with ""multiple fixes and internal changes that would further facilitate integration of functionality like color management or the ability to load up multiple backends at the same time"".
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Samuel Iglesias: Closing a cycle
For the last four years I’ve served as a member of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors, but some days ago I stepped down after my term ended and not having run for re-election.
I started contributing to Mesa in 2014 and joined the amazing freedesktop community. Soon after, I joined the X.Org Foundation as an regular member in order to participate in the elections and get access to some interesting perks (VESA, Khronos Group). You can learn more about what X.Org Foundation does in Ricardo’s blogpost.
See you in A Coruña!