Yay for audio plugins under Wayland.
Non-embedded type for now, but one step at a time we will get there.
Also, today I answered a question I had for a long time...
If an X11 host running under XWayland calls Wayland-native APIs manually, would it be able to load Wayland-UI based plugins?
The answer is yes - Carla running under Qt xcb "platform" can still show Wayland UIs.
The reverse is also true (Qt wayland "platform" with X11 UIs through XWayland)
Future is bright 🌄
@falktx Very interesting!
We tried to answer a related question for the @linuxaudioplugindevelopment #faq at https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?p=178820#p178820.
This is what we came up with:
https://linuxaudio.dev/#pipewire-and-wayland
Do you mind having a look and telling me if you think that could/should be phrased differently?
Thanks for your help in advance! 🙌
@amadeus @linuxaudioplugindevelopment
> This means that if a DAW does not offer X11 support (...) it neither can be run on X11 nor will X11 plugins work inside such a DAW
This is false, the 2nd part.
A wayland-only application cannot run under X11
But! a native wayland application can 100% load X11 plugin UIs without trouble, assuming XWayland is present.
Try it! If you have Carla and Wayland, run "carla -platform wayland" (ignore project file warning)
If the host calls into X11, it works
@falktx @linuxaudioplugindevelopment Thank you very much for these insightful explanations. 🤓
I will correct the FAQ item accordingly.