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And KDE just built a screen recorder for Wayland. But why bother rewriting all of these tools, when perfectly good, battle-tested solutions already exist in X?
by irthomasthomas 4y ago
And KDE just built a screen recorder for Wayland. But why bother rewriting all of these tools, when perfectly good, battle-tested solutions already exist in X? Many software makers are unwilling to rewrite their apps from the ground up just to work on a niche system.
- nubinetwork 4y agoI think the idea is that they want to get rid of X eventually, if or when that happens is anyone's guess.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoYes, they have made that quite clear. I think it is a real shame that so much time has to be given fixing bugs and recreating software that already exists, rather than developing interesting new software on a stable platform.
- kaba0 4y agoSo bad we abandoned all those great SVN tools and created new tools for git…