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It falls into a general bucket of vaguely gaslighting behavior wherein the person talking about how a particular use case is important, is met with the claim th
by ironmagma 4y ago
It falls into a general bucket of vaguely gaslighting behavior wherein the person talking about how a particular use case is important, is met with the claim that it isn’t because of some reason (either it’s not a good use case, software design shouldn’t allow it, or it’s “already possible” in some convoluted way). This isn’t a unique situation, this kind of response happens over and over in the Linux community.
- favorited 4y agoExcept no one ever said “software design shouldn’t allow it,” which is the claim here. They said “this software won’t implement that feature the same way that other did, so there will need to be wider changes.” Which shouldn’t surprise anyone changing their display server.
- ironmagma 4y agoThey said Wayland is good design because it doesn’t allow this feature. > I don't want one process to be able to […] see what's displayed on another processes windows