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[PATCH] doc: Describe Wayland status.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>
Cc: 29943 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#29943] [PATCH] doc: Describe Wayland status.
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 15:16:46 +0100

Hello!

Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com> skribis:

> From a790d403524df182cdd8aa35931b989234d874cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:14:09 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Describe Wayland status.
>
> * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Add a paragraph about the current status of
> Wayland in Guix.

Good idea!

> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun Isaac@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee
> +Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Rutger Helling@*

You need @* on the line before yours, but not on yours (it introduces a
linebreak).

> +The desktop environments in Guix use X11 by default. If you'd like to

s/X11/the Xorg display server/ (in an attempt not to assume a too
technical audience.)

Also, please always put two spaces after an end-of-sentence period, to
ensure proper rendering.

> +use the more modern display server protocol called Wayland, you need

s/more modern/newer/  :-)

> +to use the @code{sddm-service} instead of the @code{slim-service} for
> +the graphical login manager. You should then select the ``GNOME
> +(Wayland)'' session in SDDM. Currently only GNOME has support for
> +Wayland.

Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Ludo’.

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