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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
by 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.