For inclusion in the main Wine project, the first set of patches developed by the Wine-wayland project is proposed to enable the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without the need for XWayland and X11 components. As the volume of changes is quite large, to simplify the review and integration, the Wine-wayland team plans to gradually transfer these changes, breaking the process into several stages. In the first stage, code covering the driver winewayland.drv and unixlib components, as well as preparations for processing files with Wayland protocol definitions by the build system, is proposed for inclusion in Wine. The second stage plans to transfer changes that ensure output in the Wayland environment.
After the changes are completed in the main Wine project, users will be able to use a pure Wayland environment with support for running Windows applications without the need to install X11-related packages, which allows for higher performance and responsiveness of games by eliminating unnecessary layers. Utilizing a clean Wayland environment for Wine will also eliminate security issues inherent to X11 (for example, untrusted games for X11 can spy on other applications — the X11 protocol allows access to all input events and can substitute fake key presses).
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