<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 16:58, Mark Hatle <<a href="mailto:mark.hatle@kernel.crashing.org">mark.hatle@kernel.crashing.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I also don't think oe-core itself needs a 'real' UI, and as my previous response<br>
said -- we do need something though to test that the graphical framework is<br>
working properly.<br>
<br>
In the past this often comes back to needing a LOT of a UI in order to<br>
adequately test all of the components of the system. If wayland/weston has a<br>
proper test suite that exercises all of the various parts of and pieces of the<br>
systems -- then the need for a UI drops considerably.<br>
<br>
(but we still have the need for some sort of example/demostration...)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wayland/weston do have test suites, neither of which we currently use. I don't know how much they exercise all the moving parts, but the tests do exist.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the demo/examples, I think we have reached the point where we can outsource the eye candy to the Internet and not bother with 'apps'. Specifically, just bundle epiphany/webkit into core-image-weston-demo, and make a nice looking landing page somewhere on <a href="http://yoctoproject.org">yoctoproject.org</a> that links to various HD video sites and WebGL demonstrators. As long as both GL and h.264/whatnot are HW accelerated, this should look and feel fine, even in qemu with virgl and kvm acceleration to a recent x86 CPU family.</div><div><br></div><div>For what it's worth, with my <a href="http://mbition.io">mbition.io</a> hat on, I do not care in the slightest for X anymore, and wouldn't blink an eye if all of it would disappear from oe-core tomorrow. What I wanted to gauge is whether people still use X for *new* product development, and for what reasons, and how much resistance there is to the idea of switching the default graphical stack in oe-core to weston.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div></div></div>