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“You are overestimating the difficulties of porting old stuff to wayland” The same is true for moving away from win32 GUI API. How many times has Microsoft tri
by ehvatum 6y ago
“You are overestimating the difficulties of porting old stuff to wayland”
The same is true for moving away from win32 GUI API. How many times has Microsoft tried?
I have experimented with wayland and considered submitting patches for various 30-bit color issues, but the community is so catty. Everything is met with snark. It reminds me so much of trying to help a damaged person who doesn’t trust me, which is so weird and off-putting, in this context.
- turminal 6y ago> The same is true for moving away from win32 GUI API. How many times has Microsoft tried? I'm not very familiar with this example, but experience from proprietary systems rarely applies to FOSS because the way free software is developed is so different. Furthermore, Qt and GTK apps work out of the box with both wayland and X. The same applies to many other toolkits and libraries. > I have experimented with wayland and considered submitting patches for various 30-bit color issues, but the community is so catty. Everything is met with snark. What part of the ecosystem did you attempt to contribute to? I got a couple of patches merged into Sway and some of its utilities and the community always felt rather welcoming.