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by rkangel 1950 days ago
Do I understand from a quick Google that you don't support Wayland (or at least Solus doesn't)? If you're using mutter you should presumably have the core of the capability available I believe?

I use Fedora and one of the big reasons is Wayland. I understand there are some usecases for which it doesn't work well for people and that's exactly why I think it is important to use it as much as possible to help get those ironed out. We need to move on from X.
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JoshStrobl 1950 days ago
"Do I understand from a quick Google that you don't support Wayland (or at least Solus doesn't)? If you're using mutter you should presumably have the core of the capability available I believe?"

At this time, we do not support Wayland, that is correct. We leverage a fair few X11-specific APIs and include support for XEmbed-based system tray icons (you would have to pry system tray icons from my cold dead hands :D). Not saying it won't ever be supported, but that wouldn't be addressed until we move to our own window manager at the very least.

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cycloptic 1950 days ago
There are numerous serious usability issues with the XEmbed tray icons [0], even if you stay on X11 you will eventually want to switch over to the StatusNotifier API [1]. This is supported by KDE, Ubuntu's Appindicator, and I believe XFCE now too. Thanks for your hard work in Budgie BTW.

[0]: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/03/system-tray-i...

[1]: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierIt...

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