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I'm wondering if all the resources that went to Wayland for the past TEN years were directed to slowly evolve X11 to the same direction we would be in a worse o
by mrighele 7y ago
I'm wondering if all the resources that went to Wayland for the past TEN years were directed to slowly evolve X11 to the same direction we would be in a worse or better situation.
It seems to me very similar to the Python2/Python3 debacle.
What pisses me off more than anything else is having to replace a lot of tools there are working perfectly with xorg but are not compatible with wayland.
A few example
* Window manager (of course)
* taking screenshots
* setting desktop background
* Intercepting multimedia key (e.g. volume handling)
* using redshift to set the screen temperature
* ...
Yes, I know that I'm using an unconventional setup, but the freedom to do that was one of the reasons that attracted me to a unix environment. Redhat is working very hard to change all of that for a "year of the linux Desktop" that (in my opinion) will never come.
- dralley 7y ago>I'm wondering if all the resources that went to Wayland for the past TEN years were directed to slowly evolve X11 to the same direction we would be in a worse or better situation. It seems to me very similar to the Python2/Python3 debacle. Are you arguing that a decade of constant breaking changes to a huge number, if not the majority, of desktop linux programs, and the accompanying maintenance challenges (as versions of window managers, Gtk and the like would all be tightly coupled to specific Xorg versions) would have been a better approach than a rewrite + compatibility shim (XWayland) that allows for a fair amount of backwards compatibility? Needless to say, I disagree.
- vmchale 7y agoMight be time for me to stop using XMonad, unfortunately. Pretty annoying IMO. XMonad works exactly how I want it to.
- meruru 7y agohttps://github.com/waymonad/waymonad https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad