The GNOME developers have laid out the plans for Wayland integration

Nov 14, 2013 09:41 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME developers have announced that the upcoming 3.12 version will see a much better implementation of Wayland, as the porting for this display server continues.

GNOME will provide full support for Wayland soon, meaning that the 3.12 version will incorporate some pretty important changes.

The developers hope to implement a few things in GNOME 3.12, such as Wayland sessions in gdm, keyboard handling (layout switching, on-screen keyboard, accessibility, input methods, shortcuts), pointer handling (pointer barriers, accessibility, better touchpad support), window management, application support, and more.

GNOME is one of the first desktop environments that announced incoming support for Wayland, and they intend to keep that promise.

The final release of the GNOME 3.12 stable branch is expected to arrive on March 26, 2014, but that might change by a few days.