What's LXQt's Wayland story?
There seem to be a fair few smaller (in community) DE projects (LXQt, XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie, more I don't immediately recall) who are keen for Wayland support in principal but don't want to be landed with writing/maintaining their own display server.
I know there are libs like wlroots, libweston, mir, but in practice it still seems to be too much to bite off to write a display server with one of these.
Is there appetite in the Linux desktop dev community for a grab-and-go toolkit-agnostic Wayland display server that allowed DEs to plug in their own independent WM, decorations, animations, shell? In theory shell is doable already by xdg-shell, but splitting WM and decorations out would be a new approach for Wayland. Is this technically feasible? I have the urge to start writing one myself but I'm not experienced in this area and it would be interesting for myself but almost certainly subpar for purpose.
Am I just describing Wayfire?
Without commenting on tech differences (I'm loving my mixed dpi wayland setup..), the social/community impact of X11 allowing UI/UX people to have their projects separate to the display server seems to have been significant.
Well, yes. It's called X11.
The thread did mention PaperDE [1] however , which you might want to look at if you're interested in a lightweight Wayland + QT environment.
[0] https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10 [1] https://gitlab.com/cubocore/paper/paperde
I feel we're currently missing a minimalist stacking Wayland compositor in the vein of something like openbox.
Also, I'm not very educated in this matter, but isn't wlroots a fairly good Wayland compositor? Considering sway is built on it and supports both tiling and stacking, I think that might be worth a look.
It still might be a good choice for LXQt if they do plan on supporting Wayland, though.
But that's on X11 then, right?