Wayland Desktop Landscape

Wayland has been developed for quite some time now and is meant to be a much simpler replacement of the Xorg server.

Due to the large amount of efforts expended by the community in creating beautiful applications, it is a good idea to consolidate the applications into a single authoritative location inside Gentoo to keep track of the various wayland applications. The aim of this endeavor is to make wayland into a well supported system in the current landscape of Gentoo.

One of the first things we need to do for that is to make the choices abundantly clear to the end users including their pros and cons.

= Compositors =

Wayland compositor is the equivalent of a window manager in Xorg, except that for Xorg you would need an additional compositor such as Compton or Picom. In wayland the task for both compositing and window management is delegated to the same program, which while making the program a bit larger, simplifies the API for rendering by a large extent.

= Display managers =

=Application launchers=

=Clipboard managers=

=Desktop notifications=

=Desktop widgets=

=Session management=

=Taskbars=

=Libraries=