Implemented & Planned Wayland protocols

[PolyMeilex]

• ✅ - Done
• 🔻 - Low priority / obscure / superseded / mostly unused in the ecosystem
• 🚧 - WIP

Core

Interface		Implemented / Latest Version
wl_compositor	✅	6
wl_subcompositor	✅	1
wl_shm	✅	2
wl_data_device_manager	✅	3
wl_seat	✅	9/10 (#1773)
wl_output	✅	4
wl_fixes	🚧	#1428

Stable

Protocol		Implemented / Latest Version
linux-dmabuf-v1	✅	5
presentation-time-v1	✅	2
tablet-v2	🚧	1 / 2 (lacks pads implementation)
viewporter-v1	✅	2
xdg-shell-v1	✅	6 / 7

Staging

Protocol		Implemented / Latest Version
alpha-modifier-v1	✅	1
color-management-v1	🚧	#1143
color-representation-v1
commit-timing-v1	✅	1
content-type-v1	✅	1
cursor-shape-v1	✅	2
drm-lease-v1	✅	1
ext-background-effect	🚧	#1860, #1758
ext-data-control-v1	✅	1
ext-foreign-toplevel-list-v1	✅	1
ext-idle-notify-v1	✅	2
ext-image-capture-source-v1
ext-image-copy-capture-v1
ext-session-lock-v1	✅	1
ext-transient-seat-v1
ext-workspace-v1
fifo-v1	✅	1
fractional-scale-v1	✅	1
linux-drm-syncobj-v1	✅	1
pointer-warp-v1	✅	1
security-context-v1	✅	1
single-pixel-buffer-v1	✅	1
tearing-control-v1	🚧	#1325
xdg-activation-v1	✅	1
xdg-dialog-v1	✅	1
xdg-system-bell-v1	✅	1
xdg-toplevel-drag-v1
xdg-toplevel-icon-v1	✅	1
xdg-toplevel-tag-v1	✅	1
xwayland-shell-v1	✅	1

Unstable

Protocol		Implemented / Latest Version
wp_fullscreen_shell-v1	🔻	Not used by any mainstream compositor
wp_idle_inhibit-v1	✅	1
wp_input_method-v2	✅	1
wp_input_timestamps-v1	🔻	After 6y still used only by Weston
wp_keyboard_shortcuts_inhibit-v1	✅	1
wp_explicit_synchronization-v1	🔻	Superseded by linux-drm-syncobj
wp_pointer_constraints-v1	✅	1
wp_pointer_gestures-v1	✅	3
wp_primary_selection-v1	✅	1
wp_relative_pointer-v1	✅	1
wp_text_input-v3	✅	1
xdg_decoration-v1	✅	1
xdg_foreign-v2	✅	1
xdg_output-v1	✅	3
xwayland_keyboard_grab-v1	✅	1

Unstandardised

Protocol		Implemented / Latest Version
wlr-layer-shell-v1	✔️	5
KDE server-decoration	✔️	1
virtual-keyboard-v1	✔️	1
wlr-data-control-v1	✔️	2
wlr-input-inhibitor-v1	🔻	The main use case has been replaced by ext-session-lock

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Feel free to edit this as needed.

[rano-oss]

input-method heavy_check_mark 2
text-input heavy_check_mark 3
virtual-keyboard heavy_check_mark 1
I cannot edit, but these are the correct versions

[Drakulix]

input-method heavy_check_mark 2
text-input heavy_check_mark 3
virtual-keyboard heavy_check_mark 1

I cannot edit, but these are the correct versions

Thanks, fixed :)

[PolyMeilex]

Well those are version 1, of second/third revision of unstable protocols.

[rano-oss]

Agreed, but I think most people refer to the revisions _('')/
ref: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/39#implementation-matrix
Maybe have both?

[elinorbgr]

Yeah, maybe have a column "protocol revision", and a column "global version" ?

[PolyMeilex]

Yeah, maybe have a column "protocol revision", and a column "global version" ?

Yep, will do that

[bwidawsk]

wl_compositor v5, subcompositor v1

[orowith2os]

Should the KDE SSD and virtual-keyboard-v1 protocols be supported still? We have xdg-decoration and the v2 of the virtual keyboard protocols already.

If clients don't support them, it would probably be better to fix the clients than work around their issues.

[Drakulix]

Especially kde-decoration is incredibly small and not really a maintenance burden, but (funnily enough) GTK of all toolkits has not yet moved to xdg-decoration.

There is an open PR to fix that, but that one hasn't received attention in years...

[orowith2os]

For readers: I've made a PR upstream to fix the issue, and in the process, caused the world to burn:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/6161