That sentence is quite confusing, to my knowledge a better explanation would be:...

floatboth · on June 22, 2018

Ah, so the Chrome OS UI, which is running directly on GBM/KMS, became a Wayland compositor just for the Android compatibility layer?

(Oh, and for the recently announced Linux desktop apps support maybe?)

zaxcellent · on June 22, 2018

The Wayland compositor was added to the Chrome OS UI to support Android, but it was very convenient for us to glob onto that for the Linux desktop apps support.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/con...