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> Yet again, wayland is the protocol. if people on HN don't know or care on something like this (I didn't, and I don't), then good luck telling less HN-y peopl
by avh02 6y ago
> Yet again, wayland is the protocol.
if people on HN don't know or care on something like this (I didn't, and I don't), then good luck telling less HN-y people about wayland being the protocol and not the implementation.
I'm annoyed at myself for this very comment, but somehow, somebody (many people), somewhere messed up the messaging around these things.
- __s 6y agoThe messaging needs to not say "wayland replaces X11", but instead "GNOME or KDE replace X11" & if someone wants to use a different compositor it's up to that compositor whether they want to match X11 features or not (& then the rest of the software ecosystem to implement support for that compositor's features) Then it becomes a question of whether GNOME/KDE have feature parity between X11 & wayland. Then other compositors can go about implementing the interfaces they've setup to be GNOME or KDE compatible