The X.org developers decided. The person who started Wayland was an X.org developer, and IIUC many who joined the effort are/were X.org developers, etc. > I a

The X.org developers decided. The person who started Wayland was an X.org developer, and IIUC many who joined the effort are/were X.org developers, etc. > I am sure that if you poke around you will find someone still relying on those features being present daily. Not really. Many of these things have been broken in X.org for years and years... because nobody used them! (Again, see the talk.) There's also the whole abysmal security record of X11[1], due in large part to the huge API and the fact that all serialization/deserialization of requests is hand-coded (by necessity). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7ixRE3OCw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7ixRE3OCw