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I would say "very significant" is understating it. Anything that touches Xlib/XCB/etc would need to be at least modified, if not rewritten completely.

• sdegutis 7y ago
  That’s probably not a bad thing. We have the benefit of hindsight of decades of GUI management and it probably isn’t more than a weekend project to get a baseline library worked out to build cool things (like awesomewm and i3 and dwm) off of. Which probably already exists.
  • maximente 7y ago
    > it probably isn’t more than a weekend project to get a baseline library worked out to build cool things (like awesomewm and i3 and dwm) off of what technical justifications are you using to make this claim?
  • ubercow13 7y ago
    Isn't that what wlroots is? And it's taken many years of work by multiple contributors and still isn't really finished
    • Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
      wlroots is finished enough to build production-quality Wayland desktops out of.
• smcameron 7y ago
  How about gtk-2.0 apps?