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> People using different implementations will come across different issues too. ...which is the biggest problem of Wayland in my opinion. By defining protocol
by kbumsik 6y ago
> People using different implementations will come across different issues too.
...which is the biggest problem of Wayland in my opinion.
By defining protocols only, we now have the development fragmentation problem. The desktop experiences will be more inconsistent between DEs than the era of X11, and minor DE users eventually are forced to switch to major DEs like Gnome because other DEs won't have enough devs to maintain its low-level implementation.
- MayeulC 6y agoWlroots as a library for implementing a Wayland compositor has done wonders to help develop small-scale Wayland "desktop environments". Sure, you pull the whole wlroots things, but under X, you pull xlib, plus some X11 server. https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki/Projects-which-use-wlroots https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki/Projects-which-use-wl...