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With such limited resources, I wonder if just targeting wayland initially would get usable results faster.
by kitotik 6y ago
With such limited resources, I wonder if just targeting wayland initially would get usable results faster.
- e12e 6y agoSeeing as how multi-touch generally works (at the display server level in Wayland) - I think a backoort to xorg makes sense - it aligns incentives for maintainers to test and improve support in toolkits and applications.
- pantalaimon 6y agoMost users are on Xorg, so this will have the most impact. There is also no single Wayland compositor they could focus on.
- vertex-four 6y agoThere are, in practice, 3 that anyone cares about - GNOME’s, KDE’s, and wlroots. I don’t know how much of their work is potentially portable across the three. But while most users are currently on Xorg, the work going into improving responsiveness and suchlike is all going into Wayland. This project is really putting lipstick on a pig.
- floatboth 6y agoAlso, compositors don't really need much improvement in this area, everything has been done ages ago. It's all about the toolkits, and some great work is happening in GTK, e.g.: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1562 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1562 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1117 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/1117