SDL3 support

[mldulaney]

Are there plans to switch to sdl3? It seems some work was started last year but not much progress has been made.

[nbriggs]

As long as SDL2 is being maintained and there are no compelling reasons to prioritize the switch to SDL3 (are you aware of any?) I think it will be a background task to be worked on as time permits. I'm currently the only person actively working on the Maiko code.

[mldulaney]

ah, i had not realized newer versions of sdl2 could support wayland. My interest is native wayland support

[nbriggs]

The other path our users who have Wayland desktops take is using Xwayland. Since I'm mostly a macOS user, and I have XQuartz installed, most machines (other than my laptop) I'd test maiko/Medley on will be doing X11 forwarding over SSH to my XQuartz display. The SDL code hasn't been getting much attention, and needs some fixups for missing (or inconsistent) key mappings compared to the X11 mappings.

[mldulaney]

it seems with sdl2 it just works under native wayland

[nbriggs]

Could be that SDL2 is supporting a native Wayland backend, or it could be that it attempts to make an X connection which causes Xwayland to start automatically. If you want to know which way it's happening then when it's running have a look at your processes and see if there's an Xwayland or not.