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X disappearing from the face of the earth would be a great thing for wayland, because people would be forced to fix the remaining issues. I’ve seen this happen
by Joeri 6y ago
X disappearing from the face of the earth would be a great thing for wayland, because people would be forced to fix the remaining issues.
I’ve seen this happen multiple times with replacement systems: as long as people can escape back to the old system the new one remains rough around the edges, but once the old one is turned off the new system rapidly improves to production level quality.
- jolmg 6y ago> people would be forced to fix the remaining issues. The problem is that they can't be fixed, as I understand. People are asking for things that some see as features and others see as bugs. The only way to keep everyone happy is for both to continue co-existing, but unless something changes, it doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
- sjy 6y agoThe issues can’t be ‘fixed’ in the Wayland protocol, but have been addressed by individual compositors and libraries like wlroots. The difficulty is not in building a decent Wayland desktop from scratch (GNOME, Sway and ChromeOS have all done this), but in rewriting X11 window managers, screen sharing apps and automation tools that perform functions that are the compositor’s responsibility under Wayland.
- michaelmrose 6y agoWhy would they be forced to fix the remaining issues instead of telling users they don't really need the features that they have deprecated?