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Wayland compositor (wlroots)
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commit88c87675b1e8f025f6d83b71bea4b297781f933b
parent0c1db5e89f
authorLucas Galante <[email protected]>
date2026-08-13 23:46
docs: cce-ui shapes text with cosmic-text directly, not glyphon

glyphon was a wgpu text renderer; with the wgpu path retired, none of its own
API was reachable and every item cce-ui used from it was a cosmic-text
re-export. cce-ui now depends on cosmic-text directly (pinned to the version
glyphon resolved to) and re-exports it for clients, which takes wgpu out of
the DE build entirely. No compositor code change — its own text path is
fontdue, as this file says.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

 WORKSPACE.md       | 4 +++-
 src/server/text.rs | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/WORKSPACE.md b/WORKSPACE.md
index 0935fa1..7bf166d 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE.md
+++ b/WORKSPACE.md
@@ -128,7 +128,9 @@ framework. Understanding it is the prerequisite for touching any client.
 - **Transport**: raw `wayland-client` 0.31 + `smithay-client-toolkit` 0.19, driven by a
   `calloop` event loop. Clients are real Wayland surfaces, not toolkit windows.
 - **Rendering**: raw Vulkan via **ash** (`cce-ui/src/vk/` — `VkRenderer`; the wgpu
-  path was retired), with **glyphon**/cosmic-text for text shaping. Widgets emit
+  path was retired), with **cosmic-text** for text shaping (depended on directly
+  since the wgpu retirement — it used to be reached through glyphon, whose only
+  other export was the wgpu renderer nothing here used). Widgets emit
   vertex batches (quads, rounded rects, vectors, arcs, circles) — see the re-export
   list in `cce-ui/src/engine.rs`. There is no HTML/DOM; the UI is drawn as GPU
   primitives.
diff --git a/src/server/text.rs b/src/server/text.rs
index 8430c6b..1b82acf 100644
--- a/src/server/text.rs
+++ b/src/server/text.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! Minimal CPU text rendering, for the desktop-grid square labels.
 //!
 //! The compositor has no toolkit — clients own their own text (cce-ui does
-//! Vulkan + glyphon). The one thing the compositor itself has to letter is the
+//! Vulkan + cosmic-text). The one thing the compositor itself has to letter is the
 //! desktop grid, so this is deliberately the smallest thing that works:
 //! fontdue rasterizes a short ASCII label into an ARGB8888 buffer, which
 //! `river_data_buffer_create` wraps as a `wlr_buffer` for a scene node.