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That is only true on X. With the wayland protocol, the DE also becomes the display server. And because of barndoor sized holes in the standard wayland protocol,
by gmueckl 7y ago
That is only true on X. With the wayland protocol, the DE also becomes the display server. And because of barndoor sized holes in the standard wayland protocol, apps will either have enormous testing effort or be limited to a DE or two.
- japanoise 7y agoAnd that's why wayland will never replace X
- dependenttypes 7y agoMost programs use existing libraries like SDL, GTK, QT, etc, which handle wayland integration on their part.