On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:10:42AM -0400, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
So indeed, you cannot restart gnome-shell in Wayland, it's pretty much by design, just like you cannot restart weston if you use weston as your Wayland compositor.
But is being able to restart gnome-shell such an important feature? Isn't that a debug (user hitting alt-f2 + "r", what's the real use case for that, in a normal, regular user session?) - What matters more, imho, is that gnome-shell is robust enough so that it doesn't crash.
This should probably be added to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features even if it's not exactly a feature. (Both the ability to restart intentionally and the ability to recover from a shell crash with minimal user disruption.)
I can add it to the wiki if need be, although it's probably better if someone with domain expertise does.