> I am quite confused by the fact that apparently changing toolkits to set a new property (a one liner) is hard, and creating a program to do this change for th

> I am quite confused by the fact that apparently changing toolkits to set a new property (a one liner) is hard, and creating a program to do this change for these toolkits externally without changing them at all is a "hack" Most issues could probably solved by a variety of hacks. Several issues that don't concern yourself couldn't. The problem is that X consists of 40 years of hacks piled up on each other. THe X.org devs actively chose to stop further development and continue their work on wayland. You are on the same side as the people bemoaning IPv6 and asking why we couldn't just use one of the unused flags in IPv4 to solve the address depletion issue. It sometimes makes sense to make incompatible changes.