refactor: replace USE_X11 with OS_LINUX for sharing code with Ozone#29
refactor: replace USE_X11 with OS_LINUX for sharing code with Ozone#29
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🔍 PR Link Analysis🔗 Ranked Links#1 these Wayland patches🔍 The patches replace USE_X11 conditionals with OS_LINUX to enable sharing X11-specific code with Ozone-based builds, which is the first step toward supporting Wayland in Electron. #2 going away🔍 The issue requests that Electron provide prebuilt binaries compatible with Wayland, as current Linux builds depend on X11 and GTK, making them unsuitable for Wayland-based systems like Ubuntu and embedded devices. #3 commit guidelines🔍 This pull request replaces the USE_X11 preprocessor macro with OS_LINUX to enable sharing code across X11 and Wayland backends in Electron's Ozone implementation. #4 https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md🔍 This pull request is a small first step toward supporting Wayland by replacing USE_X11 with OS_LINUX to share code with Ozone. #5 chromium#1085700🔍 The USE_X11 macro is being replaced with OS_LINUX to enable code sharing between X11 and Wayland (Ozone) backends on Linux. #6 these chromium changes🔍 The webpage describes Gerrit Code Review, a web-based code review system for Git repositories, which is relevant to the PR's goal of upstreaming Wayland patches through a structured review process. |
Description of Change
This pull-request is a small first step in trying to bring support for Wayland to Electron. I'm planning to follow up on this with more pull-requests in an effort to upstream these Wayland patches.
However, those patches will need some adjustments in order to make them compatible with the upcoming Chromium changes (chromium#1085700) which will soon be merged into Electron (#25488). In particular, it should be taken into consideration that the
USE_X11andUSE_OZONEbuild flags are no longer mutually exclusive.Also,
USE_X11is going away so it might be desirable as a long term goal to remove it from Electron too and replace it with the Ozone equivalents.With that in mind, this pull-request replaces a few instances of
#if defined(USE_X11)with#if defined(OS_LINUX)where it was identified that the guarded code could be shared with Ozone.The more meaningful changes will come in the upcoming pull-requests but I'll be waiting for these chromium changes to be pulled into Electron first (#24984, #25488).
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